1.1 The First American
A land Bridge connected North America and Asia
Beringia
Marco polo's writings inspired Europeans to do this.
What is an alternative sea route to China/Asia?
A formal document that granted permission to settle on land and established government
What is a Charter?
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic
What is the Middle Passage?
The age in which the Beringia land bridge emerged.
What is the ice age?
The people who crossed the Beringia land bridge
Who are The first Americans?
Who are Siberian Hunter Gatherers?
The movement of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic.
What is The Colombian Exchange?
The regional colony that was culturally and religiously diverse
What is the middle colony?
The document that Limited the King’s power under the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
The reason the English wanted to establish colonies in North America/
What is economic competition with France and Spain?
Everything that surrounds us; land, water, plants and animals, and minerals
What is the environment?
What is Natural resources?
The percentage of Native Americans that died due to European Diseases
What is 90%?
The first permanent/successful English colony?
What is Jamestown?
The document that gave colonists rights to petition the king and trial by jury.
The English Bill of Rights
The main income/economy of the French colonists
What is fur trading?
A region where people share a way of life/ language that is shaped by their environment
What is a cultural region?
The 3 ways European Colonization affected Native Americans
What is Loss of land, life and tradition?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
What is the Middle Colony?
The movement that spread the idea that all people are equal in the eyes of God.
What is the Great Awakening?
An action that limits a person's or group's freedom against their will, supposedly for their own good.
What is Paternalism?
Describe in detail ways Native Americans adapted to their enviornment
Acceptable answers must name a specific natural resource and what it was utilized for
Acceptable answers must name a specific natural resource and what it was utilized for
The place Chrisopher Columbus first landed
What is a Caribbean Island? (San Salvador)
An economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies
What is mercantilism?
The colony that required towns to have public schools.
What are the New England Colonies?
The name of the Dutch colony that was later renamed New York
What is New Netherland?