Sources
Early Encounters
The Enlightenment
Concepts
Grab Bag
100

A biography is an example of this type of source.

What is a secondary source?

100

This pathogen (disease) resulted in the deaths of up to 90% of the indigenous population of the Americas.

What is smallpox?

100

This woman was the mother of the feminist movement.

Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?

100

The social contract was an ideal important to this philosopher.

Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?

100
These commodities were grown for profit in the Americas; examples include sugarcane, tobacco, and indigo.

What are cash crops?

200

Census data is an example of this type of source.

What is a primary source?

200

This brutal sea journey brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.

What is the middle passage?

200

Some Enlightenment era ideals originated during this earlier historical event.

What is the Scientific Revolution?

200

Smith argued that capitalist economic systems would be guided by this.

What is an invisible hand?

200

This type of government was the norm in most European states during the 15th-18th centuries.

What is absolute monarchy?

300

Students should always use _________, or trustworthy, sources.

What is credible?

300

These people signed contracts to work for a set number of years; in exchange they received free passage to the Americas.

Who were indentured servants?

300

This philosopher argued in favor of capitalist economic systems.

Who is Adam Smith?

300

This philosopher believed that people possessed natural rights that could not be taken away.

Who is John Locke?

300

This was the only disease believed to travel from the Americas to Eurasia and Africa.

What is syphilis? 

400

A photograph of Civil War soldiers is a good example of this type of source.

What is a primary source?

400

This term refers to the exchange of people, animals, plants, and diseases between the Americas and Eurasia/Africa.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

400

John Locke believed people were entitled to these three things.

What are life, liberty, and property?

400

Many Enlightenment-era ideals were included in this document, central to the creation of the United States.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

400

Europeans began to "explore" in the 15th and 16th centuries in search of what?

What are trade goods like spices, silk, and porcelain.
500

A documentary about the American Revolution is this type of source.

What is a secondary source?

500

Christopher Columbus believed that these people were docile and could be easily controlled.

Who were the Taino?

500

This man believed that religious tolerance would benefit all societies.

Who is Voltaire?

500

This term refers to the exchange of crops, enslaved people, and weapons/finished goods between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

What is the Triangular Trade?

500

This is Dr. Adams' favorite animal.

What is the cat?

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