TOOLS FOR STUDYING HISTORY (Sources; Geography; Economics; & Government)
THE AGE OF EXPLORATION
LIFE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
100
These are the three types of maps that historians use when studying history.
What are political maps; physical maps; and special-purpose maps?
100
This is a Spanish explorer/conqueror. Examples include: Hernan Cortes; Francisco Pizzaro; and Juan Ponce de Leon.
What is a conquistador?
100
This was the first permanent, surviving English colony in the Americas.
What is Jamestown?
100
This protest against the unpopular Tea Act was organized and carried out by the Sons of Liberty on the night December 16th, 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
He was the lead commander of the Continental Army.
Who was General George Washington?
200
Examples of this type of source include: a biography; a replica; and a documentary.
What is a secondary source?
200
These are the European nations that participated in and sent out voyages during the Age of Exploration.
What are Spain, Portugal, England, France, and the Netherlands?
200
These regions of the colonies were settled by people seeking economic opportunities.
What are the Middle AND Southern colonies?
200
This is why the British started taxing the colonies.
What is to pay for the debt that they incurred during the French & Indian War?
200
This is the battle that served as a major turning point in the war and that convinced the Spanish and French to ally with the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
300
This is the type of economic system in which people are free to control and own the means of production. The United States' economy is an example of this.
What is the free enterprise system?
(market economy is also an acceptable answer)
300
This is the explorer who completed the first circumnavigation of the world.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
300
This is the trade route between Britain, west Africa, and the Americas, which was responsible for bringing over a quarter of a million African slaves during the colonial era.
What is the triangular trade?
300
At this meeting, delegates from nearly all of the colonies voted to boycott ALL British goods AND endorsed the Suffolk Resolves, which stated that the Coercive Acts were illegal.
What is the First Continental Congress?
300
These were the hired soldiers from Germany who fought alongside the British during the Revolution.
Who were the Hessians?
400
This is the type of government in which power is split between a central national government AND state and local governments.
What is the federal system?
400
These are the three major motivations that guided the Age of Exploration explorers.
What are glory, God, and gold?
400
This was the popular economic theory during colonial times which held that a nation should seek to export more than it imports.
What is mercantilism?
400
These are the ways that colonists showed their opposition to the Stamp Act.
What is by starting the Sons of Liberty; burning effigies that were made in the likeness of unpopular tax collectors; boycotting British goods; and attending the Stamp Act Congress?
400
This is why inflation became a widespread economic concern/problem during the Revolution.
What is because the Continental Congress printed millions of dollars' worth of paper bills to pay for war expenses, without making sure that those bills were backed by the proper amounts of gold and silver?
500
These are powers that ONLY the federal government has.
What are declaring war; coining money; regulating trade between states and foreign nations; maintaining the military?
500
This is the event that ended Spain's complete dominance over the seas and that allowed the English a clear way to start colonies in North America.
What is England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588?
500
This is the young Virginia planter who led a rebellion in response to Governor Berkeley's pledge to keep settlers from moving onto Native American lands.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
500
This is why 700 British troops were ordered to march to Concord in April 1775.
What is to seize Patriot weapons that were being kept in a "secret" cache/arsenal there?
500
This is why the British changed their strategy in 1778 and focused their efforts to the south.
What is because they knew there was strong Loyalist support in the south AND they believed that there were more opportunities to showcase their sea power in the south?