7th grade 1
What are the 5 themes of geogrpahy?
MR. HELP
refusing to do or buy something
Boycott
These are laws that separated blacks and whites
Jim Crow laws
Banned/abolished slavery throughout the nation
13th amendment
These people were loyal to the King
Loyalist
How did the first people get to the Americas?
They cross a land bridge that sunk or a sheet of ice that melted. They were following their food source
Quartering ACT
The amendment to the constitution stated that all men over the age of 18 had the right to vote
15th
To bring formal charges of wrong doing against an elected official.
Impeachment
Protesting colonists dressed up like Indians and threw large amounts of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
This is the study of the evidence left by people in order to find out about their way of life.
Patriots
Secret society that worked to keep African Americans and white Republicans out of office
KKK
This gave food and clothing to former slaves. It helped them to find jobs and gave them medical care and an education
Freedman's Bureau
This is the term to describe a government elected by the majority of its people
Democracy
Original Manuscripts created at the time of an event occured (speeches, letters, interviews, diaries)
Primary Source
Mercantilism
A fee paid by voters each time the voted
Poll tax
This is a company that has complete control of an industry (oil, steele and train)
Monopoly
Southern Colonies
This was lead by a Grand Council of 50 sachems or chiefs. It was created to end wars among members and provide defense against outsiders.
League of Iroquois
These were harsh actions taken by the British to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts
Farmed large plantations, in return the planters got a share of the crop at harvest time.
Sharecroppers
These people dug up the dirt on the corruption of big business and exposed them
Muckrakers.
This was signed on July 4th 1776 to give the colonies their freedom from England.
Declaration of Independence