Colonies
Main cash crop of South Carolina and Georgia
What is rice?
Conquistador that landed on the east coast of present-day Mexico in 1519
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Act that taxed colonists for any paper goods
What is the Stamp Act?
Native Americans were so important in the clash between the French and British because
The side that received the best trade terms from Native Americans and the most help in the war would win the contest for the control of North America. The French were more invested in trading furs than taking over the Native Americans' land.
What is moved to Mount Vernon?
A colony in which an owner or a group of owners named the colony's governor
What is a proprietary colony?
Patriot Soldier who became a traitor and spied for the British
Who was Benedict Arnold?
List of government's fundamental laws
What is a constitution?
Had the advantage with the Native Americans because
The French had better relations with the Native Americans. Many french trappers and fur traders married Native American women and followed their customs. French missionaries converted many Native Americans to Catholicism but let them maintain their own culture.
Took the lad in finding a trade route to India
What is Portugal?
People in New England used water power from streams to
What is run grain and lumber mills?
Drilled Patriots at Valley Forge
Who is Friedrich von Steuben?
Act that forced the colonies to allow British soldiers to live among the colonists
What are the Coercive Acts/Quartering Acts?
Southern states feelings about African American men as soldiers
Southern states refused to have African American soldiers out of fear of giving them weapons. They feared a revolt of the enslaved people. Slave owners also feared that by placing enslaved persons in the army, there would be an expectation that they would be freed based on their service.
Chose the male members of the Iroquois Grand Council
Who are the clan mothers?
French established this in the Americas
What is fishing and fur trade?
Important in establishing freedom of the press in America
Who is John Peter Zenger?
Directed the flow of goods between England and the colonies
What are the Navigation Acts?
Why was Valley Forge important?
Washington and his men spent a difficult winter without proper clothing, shoes, food, and other supplies. Thousands of soldiers died. Everyday American citizens collected food and supplies to send to them. Since George Washington stayed there the whole winter, his men were loyal to him.
Built mud-brick dwellings called mounds
Who are the Adena, Hopewell and Mississippian?
Navigational tool
What is an astrolabe?
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
Most of the Continental Army signed up for the duration of the war.
False
Patriotic American women supported the Revolutionary War by
Making yarn and homespun goods to send to troops and uphold the boycott, serving as nurses, attendants and combatants on the battlefield, assuming traditional male roles on farms and in business.
What is a 365-day calendar?