P1: 1491-1607
Pre-Columbian America + Early Cultural Interactions
Pre-Columbian America + Early Cultural Interactions
Native American tribes were excellent at using their environment to their advantage. One famous farming technique called_______ utilized beans, corn, and squash in tandem to maximize each unique quality of each plant.
What is Three Sisters Farming.
Name at least 2 causes of the War of 1812.
What is impressment, violating free trade, arming native tribes, land encroachment.
The name of the idea of economic, political, and cuktural seperation over time between the Northern & Southern states in the United States in the mid 1800s.
Who is sectionalism.
Many early tribes utilized a gendered power structure in which social identity and property descend through the female line.
What is Matriarchy
Native American war against the Spanish and their encomienda system that eventually led to accommodations of Native American cultures.
What is The Pueblo Revolt or Popes Rebellion
Law that prevented colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. Started some DRAMA!
What is The Proclamation Act of 1763
What am I talking about? Grew the power of the Executive Branch, Thomas Jefferson is hypocritical, doubled the size of the USA.
What is The Louisiana Purchase of 1803
President Lincoln had some epic speeches and decisions during the Civil War, including the Gettysburg address and Emancipation Proclamation. However, people also criticized perceived abuse of executive power. Name at least two examples.
Some examples could include the union draft, suspending habeas corpus, and declaring marshal law.
Any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1747 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
What is Navigation Acts
Famous eventual first lady that urged her husband to "Remember the Ladies" when forming our country. Part of the "Republican Motherhood" group.
Abigail Adams
Name at least 3 of the most important events compounding the issue of sectionalism culminating with the Civil War. (1848-1860)
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Plan that proposed Congress be divided into two houses- The House of Reps. & The Senate- where the House of Reps members would be based on population and ever state would receive two senators.
What is The Great Compromise
First major foreign policy change since Washington's Neutrality Proclamation. It eventually made the USA the big dawgs in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
List at least one NEGATIVE impact of Reconstruction for each of the 3 major historical categories (political, cultural, economic.)
Varying
Name the two most impactful exchanges for Native Americans that traveled from the Old World to the New World during the Columbian Exchange.
What is Small Pox & Horses
You have 1 minute to complete the blanks for each regional colony group. (Goal = 1 Political, 1 Social, 1 Economic)
1. New England, _______, ________, _______
2. Middle Colonies, _________, _______, ______
3. Southern Colonies, ______, ______, _____
Answers vary
When looking at the inspiration and development of self government ideas and structures leading up to the Constitution and branches of government, there were three major examples that we look at as the "first" in US history.
Match the idea or impact with the correct name of the example:
1. First social contract establishing self-government in the English colonies.
2. This is the first written constitution in American history.
3. The first democratically elected body in American history, laying the foundation of what would become the future bicameral legislature.
1. Mayflower Compact
2. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
3. House of Burgesses
The team that can organize and present a correct explanation of the development of Texas, New Mexico, and California becoming part of the United States wins. Must draw a map too!
answers vary.
List at least one POSITIVE impact of Reconstruction for each of the 3 major historical categories (political, cultural, economic.)
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