PRECOLUMBIAN
A scientist who studies bones, tools, pottery, and other objects to learn about the past.
What is an archaeologist?
The list includes religion, inventions, competition, and economics.
What are the reasons for the Age of Exploration?
The primary reason the Pilgrims, Puritans, and Quakers came to colonies.
What is religious freedom?
This war led to debt, taxes, and, eventually, the Revolutionary War.
What was the French and Indian War?
The first shots of the war were fired here.
What was the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Name for the land-bridge that the earliest people to the Americas are believed to have crossed.
What is Beringia?
This new kind of ship was faster and more maneuverable.
What is a caravel?
This evil system included the kidnapping of Africans from their homes, the Middle Passage, and the auctioning of Africans in the Americas.
What is slavery/Atlantic Slave Trade?
This act taxed legal documents, newspapers, and even playing cards.
What was the Stamp Act?
The leadership of George Washington, knowledge of the land, and a desire to fight were all these.
What were the colonial advantages during the American Revolution?
The American Indians who inhabited what is now New York State.
Who were the Iroquois / Haudenosaunee?
The gradual sharing of crops, animals, and diseases betwee the eastern and western hemispheres that occurred after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This region had flat land, fertile soil, plantations, and cash crops like rice and indigo.
What were the Southern Colonies?
The author of Common Sense which urged the colonists to break away from Great Britain.
Who was Thomas Paine?
Turning point of the Revolutionary War.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
The Iroquois form of government that was a loose alliance of the 5 nations.
What is a confederacy?
The first attempt at an English colony that disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
This region had areas of fertile land, a moderate growing season, and was known as the "breadbasket colonies".
What were the Middle Colonies?
The document that included the purpose of government, grievances, and the words that broke the colonies from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The colonists lost this battle because they ran out of ammunition.
What as the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This explains why Native Americans throughout the Americas were so different.
What is geography/climate?
The first permanent English settlement that survived in spite of impure water, laziness, and disease.
What is Jamestown?
This region had rocky land, forests, ports, trade, and shipbuilding.
What were the New England Colonies?
The battle cry of the American Revolution.
What is "Taxation without representation is tyranny"?
This explains why the Battle of Saratoga was the war's turning point.
What was France supported the colonists with weapons, ships, and men?