1.1 The First Americans
The main theory used to explain how people first came to live in the Americas
What is Beringia Land Bridge Theory?
The Italian explorer who accidently discovered the Americas.
Who is Christopher Colombus?
The document that grants permission to settle land, explains how the land will be governed, and its geographic borders.
What is a Charter?
The reason the colonists rebelled against the British
What is no representation?
Rights people are given at birth and cannot be taken away
What is Natural Rights?
The army made up of civilians from the 13 colonies
What is the continental army?
Materials found in nature that can be useful for human survival
What is a Natural Resource?
Wrote a book discussing his travels to Asia that inspired European Explorers to find alternative trade routes.
Who is Marco Polo?
The legislative body that colonists set up to create laws and taxes for themselves.
What is a Colonial Assembly?
Required all colonists to pay a tax for all paper products.
What is the Stamp Act?
The pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that persuaded many to join the revolution
What is "Common Sense"?
The pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to encourage American troops to keep fighting for independence
The name of the TIME PERIOD that had freezing temperatures allowing for glaciers to form and the Beringia land bridge to emerge
What is the Ice Age?
3 Main Reasons for European Exploration and Colonization.
What is God, Gold and Glory?
The regional colony with a wooded landscape, rocky coast, religious uniformity and public education.
What is the New England colonies?
A group of representatives in American colonies who made laws for the colony.
What is a colonial assembly?
To explain to world why the colonies were separating from Great Britain.
The Army who had the most advantages at the start of the Revolutionary War?
What is the British Army?
a lifestyle of wandering or moving from place to place without a fixed, permanent settlement
What is being Nomadic?
The three main effects of Colonization on Native Americans
Loss of Life, Loss of tradition, loss of land
The regional colony with religious diversity, known as the breadbasket colony, and for their population of Quakers.
What is the Middle Colonies?
The British law-making body that passed laws and taxes for the colonists
What is Parliament?
The reason African Americans were banned from joining the Continental Army
They did not want to encourage runaways/ make the army a safe haven for runaway slaves
What shapes a Native Cultural Region
What is the Enviornment or Natural Resources?
a person sent to convince people to convert to another’s religion
What are Missionaries?
The forced journey that enslaved Africans took from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
What is the intolerable acts?
The document that was the final attempt by the Second Continental Congress to prevent full-scale war with Great Britain
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
The battle victory that helps persuade France to ally with the colonies
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The reason the first American's began to hunter-gather more and eventually start to farm.
What is Mega fauna/large animals died off/ went extinct?
Other acceptable answers: Warming Climate/ Overhunting
Spanish towns that gave conquistadors control over native land and native people. Allowing them to enslave native people for profit.
What is an encomienda?
The idea that a monarch receives the right to rule directly from God rather than from the people.
A tax, on certain goods the colonies imported from Great Britain like glass, paint, or tea
What is the Townshend Act?
The first battle of the Revolutionary War
The Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This document forced Britain to recognize the United States and forced Britain to give up its claim on all the land south of Canada
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?