What is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study?
Primary Source
Who was the leader of the Reformation? (Hint: Lutheran church)
Martin Luther
What was the largest port in New England?
Boston
Hobbes, Locke, Rosseau, Voltaire, and Montesquieu were all famous thinkers/philosophers during the ____________ period.
Enlightenment
Name one of the 4 New England Colonies.
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire
Name one of the 5 Southern Colonies.
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, or Maryland
An economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.
Mercantilism
The stage of triangular trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
Middle Passage
Name one of the four Middle Colonies
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, or New Jersey
Name at least one cash crop of the Southern colonies.
cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo
What is the name for a worker who got free passage from England and could earn their freedom after working an agreed upon number of years?
Indentured servant
Name one of the scientific discoveries that came out of the Age of Reason. (Hint: think Sir Isaac Newton, Copernicus, or Sir Francis Bacon)
- Sir Isaac Newton = gravity
- Copernicus = heliocentric model
- Sir Francis Bacon = scientific method
Which colony was founded to protect southern colonies from Spanish invasion through Florida (and to house debtors from England)?
Georgia
What is the name for a large farm in the southern colonies with many buildings?
Plantation
18th and 19th-century trading that involved shipping natural resources, finished goods, and slaves between Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
Triangular Trade