Geography & Native Americans
Age of Exploration
Colonies
Causes of the American Revolution
The American Revolution
100
Before these people migrated to North America during the last Ice Age, there were no indigenous people living in North and South America.
Who are Paleo-Indians?
100
This is a type of company in which investors share the profits and the losses
What is a joint-stock company?
100
The result of this was the establishment of the rights of freedom of the press and speech in the colonies.
What is the verdict in the John Peter Zenger trial?
100

It is the economic theory that states that the colonies exist for the benefit of the mother country.

What is mercantilism?

100

It is the refusal to buy a certain item based on an ideological belief or to express disapproval

What is boycott?

200
It is the reason why there are many cultural differences in Native American tribes
What is adaptation to different environments?
200
This happened when long-distance trade with foreign markets and an increased interest in profits became important to the people of Europe. It created a demand for faster trade routes.
What is the Commercial Revolution?
200
This system of land distribution helped create large southern plantations when paying colonists received 50 acres of land for every person whose passage to the New World they paid.
What is the headright system?
200
It is the plan to unite the colonies under a single government; it failed to get approval.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
200
This is a pamphlet that convinced some colonists to support independence.
What is "Common Sense"?
300
This is the name for people who survive by hunting wild animals and eating wild plants.
Who are hunter-gatherers?
300
It is one of the inventions that improved navigation in the 1400's by allowing sailors to use the position of the stars to calculate their ship's position at sea.
What is the astrolabe?
300
It is the name given to the leg of the triangular trade route that transported enslaved Africans to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
It prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and was largely ignored by colonists.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
According to the Declaration of Independence, some examples of these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
What are unalienable rights (natural rights)?
400
This is the scientific study of the unwritten past.
What is archaeology?
400
It is the transfer of plants, animals, people, ideas, and disease between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
It is the first democratically elected representative governing body in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
400
This law taxed paint, paper, lead, and tea; colonists protested by boycotting these items
What are the Townshend Acts?
400
This theory states that the people agree to be governed as long as the government protects their rights. An unjust government is one that doesn't protect the rights of its citizens therefore the citizens have the right to replace their government.
What is John Locke's theory, "the social contract"?
500
It is made up of five Native American tribes living in upstate New York.
What is the Iroquois League?
500
Explorers spent a lot of time searching for this northern route around the Americas. They found nothing navigable.
What is the Northwest Passage?
500
This region's main activities are trade and farming staple crops with limited use of indentured servants.
What is the economy of the Middle Colonies?
500
This expression means that taxes from our elected officials are fair, but taxes from Parliament are a violation of our rights.
What is the meaning of the slogan, "No taxation without representation!"?
500
These conflicts happened when British soldiers marched through Massachusetts in search of the leaders of the Sons of Liberty and a secret cache of weapons.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
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