HIT
A historian who is asking questions such as: Who created it? When? Why? From what perspective or point of view? What did they know? is doing this
What is Sourcing?
primary reason for exploration
What is finding a faster route to Asia for spices and other luxury goods?
This colony was the first permanent English colony
What is Jamestown?
This war started as a territorial war over the Ohio River Valley
What was the French and Indian War or the Seven Years War?
Examples would include tobacco, cotton, indigo, and grain
What are cash crops?
Examples of these would include: Photographs, autobiographies, letters, emails, diaries, artifacts, live recordings, newspapers, text messages
What are primary sources?
Reasons for exploration (PERS)
What are Political, Economic, Social, and Religious reasons?
This document, signed in 1620, created a self-government in the colony of Plymouth
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This said that colonists must provide shelter to the British soldiers in the colonies
What is the Quartering Act?
When citizens elect a smaller group of people to make laws and decisions for them, they are participating in this type of government
What is representative government?
The 1800s would include dates in this century
What is the 19th century?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
Due to the abundance of grain crops grown here, these colonies were nicknamed the Breadbasket Colonies.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This group of acts, including the Boston Port Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Massachusetts Government Act, was meant to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts?
Rights given at birth that cannot be taken away
What are unalienable rights?
A prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group
What is bias?
This native american cultural region's tribes hunted, grew the three sisters, and lived in wigwams or longhouses
What are the Northeast Woodlands tribes?
Trading between West Africa (enslaved people), the Americas (cash crops, raw materials), and Europe (manufactured goods)
What is the triangular trade?
This group sent an Olive Branch Petition to the king, created a Continental army, appointed George Washington as commander in chief, and signed the Declaration of Independence
What is the Second Continental Congress?
An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies because of the distance between the mother country and the colonies
What is salutary neglect?
Analyzing other sources to see if they say the same thing
What is corroboration?
A water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through northern Canada. Sought by navigators (does not exist)
What is the Northwest Passage?
The founders of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maryland were all seeking this
What is religious freedom?
This battle was considered the turning point of the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The Enlightenment thinker created the idea of natural rights and the social contract between the government and its people
Who is John Locke?