Indigenous Societies and Cultures in the Americas
This Mesoamerican Cilivization buil large step pyramids and developed a complex calendar and writing system.
What is the Maya Civilization?
This economic system focused on colonies providing raw materials to the mother country while buying back finished goods.
What is mercantilism?
This 1776 document, primarily written by Thomas Jefferson, announced the colonies' independence from Britain.
This social group in Latin America was made up of people born in colonies to European parents and often led independence movements.
Who are the Creoles?
This enslaved man became the most important leader of the Haitian Revolution and later ruled the colony as governor.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
The indigenous empire, centered in the Andes Mountains, built an extensive road system without using wheeled vehicles.
What is the Inca Empire?
European nations believed this was limited in the world, so colonies were used to increase it through trade surpluses.
What is wealth (gold and silver)?
The famous battle in 1777 is considered the turning point of the American Revolution because it led France to support the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This 1804 revolution made Haiti the first independent Black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 on this French colony, later renamed Haiti.
What is Saint-Domingue?
Many indigenous societies in North America relied on this farming method, often called the "Three Sisters," which included corn, beans, and squash.
What is companion planting (the Three Sisters agriculture)?
Under colonial rule, colonies were not allowed to trade freely and had to follow these laws that benefited the colonizing country.
What are trade restrictions or navigation laws?
He was the commander of the Continental Army and later became the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The Venezuelan leader, known as "El Libertador," helped liberate several South American countries from Spanish rule.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
This European country lost its most profitable colony as a result of the Haitian Revolution.
What is France?
This confederation of Indigenous nations in the northeastern woodlands influenced ideas about cooperation and governance.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This role of colonies included supplying raw materials like sugar, tobacco, and cotton to European powers.
What is being a source of raw materials?
The 1773 protest involved colonists dumping British tea into Boston Harbor to oppose taxation without representation.
What is the Boston The Party?
This European invasion weakened Spain and helped inspire independence movements across Latin America.
What is Napoleon's invasion of Spain?
In 1804, Haiti made history by becoming the first nation to be founded by formerly enslaved people and the first ____ republic in the world.
What is Black?
For many indigenous cultures, these traditions passed down through storytelling were used to teach history, values, and beliefs.
What are oral traditions?
This was the main reason European nations competed to control overseas colonies during the 16th-18th centuries.
What is economic gain?
The 1783 treaty officially ended the American Revolution and recognized the United States as an independent nation.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This system ranked people in colonial Latin America based on race and birthplace, causing major social tensions that fueled revolution.
What is the casta system?
This revolution was inspired by ideas from the French Revolution, especially liberty and equality
What is the Haitian Revolution?