Chapter One
What were the first Americans called?
Nomads
What is a Conquistador?
A spanish Explorer
What are cash crops?
Products grown to be sold
What happened during the Sugar Act?
They taxed sugar and molasses to pay for troops and to pay off war debt.
What kind of lifestyle did the first americans live?
Hunter-Gatherer
What were the Goals of Spanish Conquistadors?
God, Gold, Glory
Name a cash crop
Indigo, Rice or Tobacco
What happened during the Stamp Act?
Tax on all legal documents, newspapers, almanacs, sermons, and playing cards.
What were the 3 basic crops?
beans, corn, squash
Queen Elizabeth (The Virgin Queen)
Largest slave revolt of the colonial era was the
Stono Rebellion
Townshend Acts
Taxed lead, paint, paper, glass, and tea imported from Britain
Name 3 of the Central and South American Cultures
Answers include: Maya, Toltec, Olmec, Aztec, Inca
"Many died from Indian raids and starvation"
The Starving Time
The most popular and common way to spread ideas and news throughout the colonies
Newspapers
Tea Act
The law required America to buy tea from the struggling East India Company
The period of European history from about AD 500 to 1500, Also known as the medieval period.
The Middle Ages
"1729: the proprietors sold their land to the crown and the king created two colonies"
North and South Carolina
John Locke writes Two Treatises of Government (1690) arguing that all people have natural rights, that a government is bound to protect, What were the rights?
Life, Liberty, Property
Who gave the warning that the British were coming?
Paul Revere