TOOLS FOR STUDYING HISTORY & VOCAB
Name a type of map that historians use when studying history.
What are political maps; physical maps; climate maps or population maps?
This is a Spanish word for explorer/conqueror.
What is a conquistador?
This was the first permanent, surviving English colony in the Americas.
What is Jamestown in Virginia?
This protest against the unpopular Tea Act was organized and carried out by the Sons of Liberty on the night December 16th, 1773. They dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What is our nation's first constitution that describes how a government works?
Is this a primary or secondary source: a biography; a replica; or a documentary that explains an event after it has happened.
What is a secondary source
Name a European nations that participated in and sent out voyages during the Age of Exploration.
What are Spain, Portugal, England, France, and the Netherlands?
These regions of the colonies were settled by people escaping religious persecution.
What are the Middle AND New England colonies?
This is why the British started taxing the colonies.
What is to pay for the debt that they incurred during the French & Indian War?
What was a weakness of the AoC?
Congress could not tax the sates, could not regulate trade, different forms of currency
What is a surplus?
What is extra or left over
This is the explorer who landed in the Bahamas and "found" the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
What is the triangular trade?
This is the trade route between Britain, west Africa, and the Americas, which was responsible for bringing over a quarter of a million African slaves during the colonial era.
At this meeting, delegates from nearly all of the colonies voted to boycott ALL British goods AND endorsed the Suffolk Resolves, which stated that the Coercive Acts were illegal. What was the name of the meeting?
What is the First Continental Congress?
Under the AoC Congress was unicameral. How many houses were there?
1
This is the type of person who loves their country and will fight for it.
What is a patriot
What was a major motivation for explorers to cross the ocean and go on voyages?
What are glory, God, and gold?
This is what My Vegans Needs Some Grapes stands for.
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
What is one way the colonists showed their opposition to the Stamp Act.
What is by starting the Sons of Liberty; burning effigies that were made in the likeness of unpopular tax collectors; boycotting British goods; tar and feather tax collectors and attending the Stamp Act Congress?
To make changes to the AoC there had to be a unanimous vote. How many had to agree?
What is all of them; 13
These are names of the 3 branches of government and what they do.
Legislative Branch- makes laws
Executive Branch- enforced laws
Judicial Branch- judges/interprets laws
This country ended Spain's complete dominance over the seas and started to create colonies in North America.
What is England?
This is the young planter who led a rebellion in response to Governor Berkeley's pledge to keep settlers from moving onto Native American lands and raising taxes the farmers could not pay.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
This is the name of the first battle of the American Revolution where the shot was heard around the world and 700 British troops were ordered to march there.
What is Lexington and Concord?
What is the Great Compromise?
What is the decision to make Congress bicameral? One house for the big states (Virginia Plan with representatives based on population) and one house for the small states (New Jersey Plan with equal representation for each state gets 2).