Columbus
This European nation financed Columbus's 1492 voyage after completing the Reconquista.
Who is Spain?
This cash crop transformed Virginia's economy and increased demand for labor.
What is Tobacco?
This war left Britain deeply in debt and led Parliament to seek greater revenue from the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
This group of farmers, led by Daniel Shays, were rebelling for what reason(s) in 1786-1787?
What are high taxes and debt collections?
Historical Thinking Skills: When historians explain how one event directly led to another, they are analyzing this.
What is Causation?
These three motivational factors, all starting with the same letter, drove the desire for European empires to reach the New World
What are the Three G's? God Gold & Glory
Unlike New England, the Southern Colonies developed largely around this economic system.
What are plantations?
This was the British policy that ended in 1763, which led to stricter regulations on the colonies
What is Salutary Neglect?
Shays' Rebellion exposed weaknesses in this governing document, which created a weak national government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This particular annotation is part of the 4 corners method and is used to determine how the document answers the prompt.
What is significance? (SIG or SS)
Rather than gold, this exchange of crops, animals, diseases, and ideas had the greatest long-term impact on both hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! 600 PTS
Name one thing that occurred in the colonies in 1619.
What is Formation of the House of Burgesses?
What is Arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the English colonies?
This tax on printed materials angered colonists in 1765.
What is the Stamp Act?
This future President argued that Shays' Rebellion showed the need for a stronger central government.
Who is George Washington?
In a thesis statement, this is often the weakest of the claims. It is written out first to show that you understand both sides of an argument, and this claim can be proven incorrect or inaccurate more easily than the others.
What is the counterclaim?
The introduction of this labor system in the Caribbean contributed to the decline of Indigenous populations.
What is the encomienda system?
The Quakers were a religiously tolerant denomination who were based largely in which of the three colonial regions?
What are the Middle Colonies?
The Intolerable Acts were intended to punish Massachusetts after this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! 800 PTS
This future president believed that rebellions such as Shays Rebellion were healthy for a democratic government.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
CEAR/Body Paragraphs
This technique is often used to analyze a document, where the most important 4-corner annotation is chosen to create this type of statement.
What is a 'since' statement?
One major result of the Columbian Exchange was the transfer of this to Native Americans.
What is Smallpox and/or disease?
This 1676 uprising exposed tensions between wealthy planters and frontier settlers and encouraged a greater reliance on enslaved labor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Enlightenment ideas about natural rights and the social contract most directly influenced this founding document in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The rebellion helped convince delegates to meet in this 1787 gathering, where a new system of government was created.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
Give 1 of 2 ways to write out Context (what 3 things do we need?)
What is the Time Period before, 2-3 Key terms, and any Trends?
What are Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning?