Vocabulary
Native Americans
Maps
American Revolution
Slavery in Americas
100
What is wealth?
Having a lot of something like natural resources
100
Definition of Indigenous
people who inhabited or existed in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists
100
Where is the northwest coast located?
100
Which war caused the British to go into debt and ultimately tax the colonists?
French and Indian War
100
What was the goal of runaway slave ads?
To find the enslaved people to return them to their slave owners
200
What is power?
Having control over a group of people in a situation
200
What was the group of people who lived in the Northeastern woodlands?
The Lenape
200
What are the five oceans?
Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Indian
200
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
the Proclamation Line prohibited colonists from settling on lands in the West acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.
200
What was the middle passage?
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies and thirteen colonies.
300
Define colonization
The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area
300
Who were the Taino?
historic indigenous people of the Caribbean
300
What are the seven continents?
Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antartica
300
What is the stamp act?
an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that taxed the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown.
300
What was one way in which slave owners dehumanized their slaves in runaway slave ads?
Not giving them a last name, using racist language, giving them unkind characteristics like calling them a liar, not telling the whole story, offering money as a reward
400
Define dehumanize
The process of depriving a person or group of human qualities.
400
What is the first place that Christopher Columbus landed and wanted to colonize?
The Island of Hispanola
400
List the 13 colonies
New Hampshire, Massachussetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virgina, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
400
What was the sugar act?
an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that imposed a tax on all foreign, imported sugar and molasses in the colonies.
400
Why did Europeans/Colonists enslave people?
For free labor
500
Define morality
a set of beliefs based on ideas of right or wrong
500
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Italian explorer and navigator who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and European colonization of the Americas
500
Explain this map and its meaning
Discusses the power of the Europeans as they used their power and wealth to take over the land that the Native Americans occupied and now the Natives can only occupy the land in purple that are known as reservations.
500
Who was at the center of the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks
500
Why did Thomas Jefferson's written words about slavery get cut from the Declaration of Independence?
It would make the colonists seem like hypocrites since they state that all men are equal but then treat enslaved people as property or less than