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A crop that was domesticated by the indigenous people of southern Mexico around 10000 years ago.
What is Maize?
An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottawa chief named Pontiac. They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area. The attacks ended when Pontiac was killed. Proclamation Line of 1763.
What was the Pontiac's Rebellion?
A Powhatan Native American woman known for her involvement with English colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
Who was Pocahontas?
An American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States, from 1797 to 1801.
Who was John Adams?
On March 5, 1770 when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Many of the buildings were designed with inspiration drawn from Enlightenment neoclassical style.
What is an Architecture?
A concept developed primarily by the English in the 17th century in which they believed the world held within it a fixed amount of wealth.
What was mercantilism?
A group of Native Americans established a constitution that united differing tribes in upstate New York.
Who are the Iroquois?
An American political leader, military general, statesman, and founding father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Previously, he led Patriot forces to victory in the nation's War for Independence.
Who was George Washington?
He was an early settler of North America known for being the first person to cultivate tobacco in Virginia and for marrying Pocahontas
Who was John Rolfe?
First used as free labor (as they paid for their voyage through labor contracts), however, it was easy for Europeans to escape and blend in with others, settling their.
What is an indentured servant?
Companies that were granted permission to settle and administer colonies with the consent of the Crown for a specified amount of time.
What did the Charter Companies do?
They are an Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people of North America, with communities in northern New York State and southeastern Canada, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River.
Who were the Mohawk?
Was an American army general officer who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War. He also served notably as an officer with Rogers' Rangers during the French and Indian War, when he was captured by Mohawk warrior
Who was General Putnam?
Was intended to form a legal social hierarchy to stratify the population based on their ancestral mixed of white European, Indian, and black African.
What was the Spanish caste system?
The public act by which the Second Continental Congress, on July 4, 1776, declared the Colonies to be free and independent of England.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
Global Trade officially connected the global economy during the Early Modern Era with the discovery and settlement of the New World by Spain and the other Atlantic States.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
Began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
What was the French-Indian War?
Was an England-born political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe. Published in 1776 to international acclaim, “Common Sense” was the first pamphlet to advocate American independence.
Who was Thomas Paine?
A member of the Religious Society of Friends. A group of Christians (see also Christian) who use no scripture and believe in great simplicity in daily life and in worship.
What is a Quaker?
Was a secret revolutionary organization that was founded by Samuel Adams in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
What was the Haitian Revolution?
Were a tribe of Native American Indians who originated from modern Mexico and the American Southwest to settle in the Mississippi River Valley for about 1800 years. Known for their head-flattening and Green Corn Festival, these people built mounds and lived in a matriarchal society.
Who were the Choctaws?
He collected fossils and was obsessed with animals, especially the mammoth. He even had the bones of a mastodon (now displayed in the Monticello Entrance Hall) sent to him during his residence in the President's House in Washington, DC.
What is one thing Thomas Jefferson was obsessed with?
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
What were the Bill of Rights?