Chapter 1
What measures the amount of radioactivity left in carbon from bones, skulls, teeth?
Radio carbon
This was the crop that saved Jamestown and was known as brown gold
Tobacco
Crop grown for selling rather than to support a family
Cash Crop
The colonists troops were inexperienced and called
Continental Army
who primarily had the right to vote in America after the American Revolution?
white males with property
What year did Christopher Columbus sail from Spain and arrive in The Americas?
1492
This Indian helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter and advised them to become close with his Wampanoag tribe.
Squanto
The Enlightenment was a movement that emphasized the value of
Science
Parliament will pass _______________, requiring colonists to pay a direct tax on a variety of printed items.
Stamp Act
Was known as the Father of the Constitution?
James Madison
Northern Route through North America to the Pacific Ocean
Northwest Passage
The first English settlement in the Americas was
Jamestown
Was a philosopher who believed in natural rights
John Locke
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Senators are elected every ____
6 years
What was the name of the land bridge that the first people in the Americas used to cross into North America?
Beringia
1st governing document of Plymouth Colony
Mayflower Compact
The purpose of the Navigation Acts was to
Restrict colonial trade
The leadership of Marquis de Lafayette in the war meant that
American troops would be better trained
Which branch evaluates and determines the meaning of laws?
Judicial
The first group of people in Meso America were known as
Olmec
System of rewarding conquistadors tracts of land, including the right to tax.
Encomienda
Economic system in which both sides of commerce benefit
Mercantilism
At which battle did George Washington and his troops make a surprise attack on a group of Germans on Christmas morning?
Battle of Trenton
This act allowed Congress to begin surveying land in order to deal with new expansions West of the Appalachian Mountains:
Land Ordinance of 1785