Definition of matrilineal
Just for women-ancestry through the mothers
Why history is History is important?
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New York became an English colony in ___ (year)
1664
Why was easy for Cortes to seize control over Tenochtitlan?
Hernan Cortes was able to conquer the Aztec Empire by scaring the natives with the 16 horses, gaining alliances with the other enemies of the Aztec, having superior and better weapons than the natives (like guns), having armor, and having steel.
Who built a fort in Jamestown and in what year?
John Smith in 1608
How did Paleoindians arrive to America?
Traditional theories suggest that big-animal crossed the Bering Strait from North Asia into the Americas over a land bridge.
First known civilization in Mesoamerica
The Olmecs is considered the first civilization in mesoamerica.
What is the Trail of tears?
It is the name that received the exile to the west of the United States of the Choctaw in 1831 and the Cherokee in 1838 by imposition of the Americans
Provide 3 problems that colonists had to face when they arrived to America
That they don’t have food, lack of preparation, and that when the winter start most of the colonist die
Stablish differences between indentured servants and slaves
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What kind of colony was Maryland?
Religious Colony
proprietary colony
Name of the area where Cherokee lived
southeastern part
Definition of Migration
a movement of people and animals from one region to another
Definition of kivas
It is a big underground circle that people do they rituals.
Name of the area considered a grassy land
Great Plains
What happened in 1649?
The toleration act
Why Africans were brought to America?
Because at that time Africans were slaves and they had to work.
What is the Middle passage?
Was the Voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved African were forced to endure
What was the agreement that Smith had with the Powhatan confederacy?
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Why were there free Africans in the North?
Some Africans were servants, became successful farmers when their constraints ended.
What was the 1st English colony?
Jamestown, Virginia
What is History?
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The value and interest of history depend largely on the degree in which the present is illuminated by the past
Name of the first group of people that migrated to America
Paleoindians.
Name of the area that was divided in artic and subarctic
NORTH
Year when the first cargo ship of Africans arrived to America.
August 20, 1619