Geography
The study of the Earth, its physical features, and its human inhabitants.
The belief systems, artifacts, and other human elements of society such as food, tools, clothing, myths, religion, language, art, music, and medicine which are passed on from generation to generation.
What is culture?
The system of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
The practice of one person owning another person.
What is slavery?
A geographic region whose location, landforms, climate, and natural resources influence the cultures of the people who live there.
What is a cultural region?
Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Central, Western
What are the five regions of the United States?
The location where many Native American tribes were moved by whites.
What are reservations?
Someone who agreed to work for someone for a period of time in exchange for passage to the New World.
What is an indentured servant?
A type of large farm, worked by slaves and focused on cash crops.
What are plantations?
A legendary story that usually concerns a superhuman being.
What is a myth?
Place, location, human/environment interaction, movement, and region
What are the five themes of geography?
To adopt another culture as one's own.
What is assimilation?
The policy that colonies existed to provide raw materials and wealth to the mother countries.
What is mercantilism?
What are slave codes?
This document inspired the belief that the power of the king or ruling body should be limited.
What is the Magna Carta?
The transfer of material and nonmaterial things from place to place
What is movement?
Forced Native Americans to stop farming communally and adopt the white American idea of private property.
What is the Dawes Act?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The individual responsible for ensuring slaves carried out their responsibilities on a plantation.
What is the overseer?
This document put forward the idea that government is based on laws made by representatives of the people, not the desires of the ruler.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The system by which absolute location is determined.
What is latitude and longitude?
The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes.
What are the Five Civilized Tribes?
This event focused around new religious ideas that led to the strengthening of principles such as liberty, equality, and self-reliance.
What is the First Great Awakening?
The secret route through which slaves would escape the South for the North and Canada.
This document was the first written constitution in the American colonies.