Early America/Geography
The piece of a map that is used to understand symbols, lines, and colors.
Legend/Key
Rice, tobacco, and indigo were sold for a lot of money. These crops were called _____.
Cash crops
The Boston Tea Party occurred because colonists were protesting the tax on ___.
Tea.
Land bought from France by Thomas Jefferson in 1803. It doubled the size of the US.
Louisiana Purchase
The main cause of the Civil War
Slavery
The most widely accepted theory of how early humans arrived in North America from Asia.
Land Bridge Theory or Bering Strait Land Bridge
Under Mercantilism, colonies sent raw materials to this place.
The leader of the Continental Army
George Washington
The goal of the Temperance movement was:
to limit alcohol
Name one of the Compromises created in order to keep the North and the South together as one Union. (leading up to the Civil War)
3/5ths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850
The Native American tribe that lived in New York.
Iroquois
The colonies that relied on slave labor to farm their large plantations, had the most wealth, and limited education to the rich.
Southern Colonies
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, when British troops marched from Boston in order to arrest Patriot leaders and destroy the militia's weapons.
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The people that wanted to end slavery were called ______.
Abolitionists
Name one advantage the South had over the North at the start of the Civil War.
Home court advantage or more military colleges
Killed 80% of Native Americans
Disease
The colonies that relied on fishing, manufacturing (factories) and had the best education system so that everyone could read the Bible.
New England colonies
The street fight between petitioning Boston colonists and British soldiers, resulting in 5 colonists killed.
Boston Massacre
Economic changes in the late 1700s when large scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work. Many inventions were created during this time period.
Industrial Revolution
Abraham Lincoln issued this and freed all people enslaved in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
The settlements of ________ were mostly Christian, conducted fur trading and plantations (Haiti), and had good trading relationships with Native Americans.
New France (France)
The colonies that had a moderate growing season, nicknamed the "Breadbasket" and had the greatest religious freedom.
Middle Colonies
The tax on all paper documents used in the colonies. Colonists boycotted these goods.
Stamp Act 1765
The foreign policy developed in 1820 that was created to prevent Europe from trying to take over newly created South American nations.
Monroe Doctrine
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War. (The Union started winning battles after this)
Battle of Gettysburg