Pre-Columbian/Age of Exploration
What river were the Moundbuilders located near to?
Mississippi
Which culture was conquered by Cortes?
What was the main economic focus of the French Colonization?
Beaver fur
Which Revolutionary figure was "responsible" for the first battle of the French and Indian War?
Why were the colonists mad about the taxes after the French and Indian War?
Taxation without representation
What was the original theory about how people came from Asia to America?
Bering Strait Theory
What was the major negative, and deadly cause for death brought to the New World from the Old World?
Diseases
Which settlement did the Vikings make?
Vinland
Why did Virginia want the French to leave Fort Duquesne?
They wanted land for Tobacco
What was the first battle of the Revolution?
Lexington
Which culture discovered Zero in the Americas and was talented in astronomy?
Maya
What did the Spanish call their plantation system?
Encomienda
Which colony was the first English attempt in the New World?
Roanoke
What fort did George Washington Surrender to the French?
Fort Necessity
What is the collective name for the punitive Acts placed on the Massachusetts colony?
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
What pre-Columbian culture was located in the Southwest and made apartment style buildings?
Anasazi
How did Cortez defeat the Aztecs?
Recruiting the surrounding tribes
What is Disneyfication?
Changing a narrative to be more romantic or to have a happy ending.
How did the British try to get their money back after the French and Indian War?
Taxes on goods like sugar and tea
Why did the British close the Massachusetts Government and the Boston Port?
Actions by the Sons of Liberty such as the Boston Tea Party
What are the four competing migration theories?
What was the Spanish name for children born of Spanish and Native American parents?
Mestizos
What societal pressure caused the Salem Witch Trials?
Religious pressure for people to be "perfect?"
Where was the land the Spanish received from the French after the French and Indian War located?
West of the Mississippi
Why did Sam Adams and John Hancock Flee to Concord?
To take over an Arsenal