Indigenous People and Cultural Regions
This word describes the ORIGINAL people living in a land or region.
Indigenous
These are the 4 G's that motivated European exploration
Gold, Guns, God, and Glory
The 13 colonies were divided into these three regions.
New England, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies
About 9 out of 10 colonists lived in this type of place.
Farms
A person learning a skilled trade from an experienced craftsperson was called this.
Apprentice
Moving people away from their ancestral land is known by this vocabulary term.
Displacement
A European country wants colonies to increase its wealth. Which "G" best describes this motivation?
Gold
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut belonged to this region.
New England
A family grows its own food, makes clothing, raises animals, and produces most of what it needs. This family could be described using this vocabulary word.
Self-Sufficient
This was the forced voyage across the Atlantic that transported enslaved Africans to the Americas.
The Middle Passage?
Indigenous peoples used the resources around them for food, clothing, tools, and shelter. This is an example of this process.
Adaptation
What four European countries colonized the Americas?
France, England, Spain, and The Netherlands.
Who usually had the most political rights in the colonies?
White men who owned property.
This 1215 document established the idea that even the king was not above the law.
Magna Carta
Why would a colony with good harbors be more likely to develop a strong trade economy?
Harbors allowed ships to transport people and goods, encouraging trade and commerce.
The Lenape have ancestral connections to this present-day New York City neighborhood.
Harlem
A European country sends missionaries to convert Indigenous peoples while soldiers take control of territory. Which TWO G's are represented?
Gold and Guns.
Which colonial region was known as the 'Breadbasket'?
The Middle Colonies
Why were cities important in colonial life?
They were centers of trade and commerce.
A farmer grows tobacco mainly to sell for profit rather than to feed their family. What type of crop is tobacco in this example?
Cash Crop
Two Indigenous groups live in very different environments and develop different homes, foods, and ways of life. Explain the main reason their cultures developed differently.
They adapted to different environments and natural resources.
Explain one way colonization negatively impacted Indigenous people.
Disease, enslavement, murder, kidnapping.
Why did slavery expand so fast in the South?
Large farms needed labor to grow cash crops.
Name a right included in the 1689 English Bill of Rights
Trial by jury, petitioning the King, and having laws and taxes approved by elected representatives.
People in a region use animal skins for clothing and wood from nearby forests to build homes. What does this show about how they adapted?
They used available natural resources to meet their needs.