US Geography
Washington
The earliest European explorers were lured to the new world by what?
Gold and Silver
This town was known as England's first permanent settlement in North America.
Jamestown
What type of economy was big in the South?
Plantation Economy
The Boston rebels dressed up as who during the Boston Tea Party?
Native Americans
The first shots of the revolution were fired here
Massachusetts
Aside from European weaponry, what was a major contributing factor to native deaths?
Disease
measles, mumps, chickenpox, smallpox
Why were Virginia's frontier settlers frustrated with their government?
What rebellion did this start?
Poor white men and indentured servants fought with Native Americans and each other for land. Both parties were upset at the Virginia government because they felt like the government wasn't doing enough to help them.
What types of crops were grown in the north?
Corn, and rice.
Who was the first casualty of the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks
Home to BYU, Mount Zion, and a basketball team named after a musical genre.
Utah
What impact did Colombus' discovery of the Americas have on Africa?
The slave trade!
It drained Africa of 10 million people.
What was the mission of the Puritans?
To purify the church of traces of Catholicism.
They believed they had a special covenant with God. Wanted to create a moral society.
What was the Enlightenment?
What is the stamp act?
An act that imposed a tax on documents and printed items like wills, newspapers, and playing cards.
Pocahontas lived in this state
Virginia
What did Spain and Portugal agree to do at the Treaty of Tordesillas?
They divided the Western Hemisphere between themselves.
Who are the Quakers?
A Protestant sect that held services without formal ministers, allowing any person to speak as the spirit moved him or her.
What was the Great Awakening?
A series of religious revivals aimed at restoring the intensity and dedication of the early Puritan church.
How did the Sugar Act cause tensions between the English and the colonists?
Colonial merchants complained that the Sugar Act would reduce their profits. Merchants complained that Parliament had no right to tax the colonists because they were not represented.
Controlled by the Spanish this state boasts the oldest European city in the United States.
Florida
What happened under the encomienda system?
How were natives treated?
Natives farmed, ranched, or mined for Spanish landlords.
They were treated like slaves. Overworked and were fed very little.
What were the rules of the Navigation Act?
No country could trade with the colonies unless the goods were shipped in either colonial or English ships.
All vessels had to be operated by crews that were at least three-quarters English or colonial.
The colonies could export certain products, including tobacco and sugar, and later rice, molasses, and furs only to England.
How did enslaved Africans maintain their sense of self-esteem?
They developed a way of life-based on their cultural heritage. They kept alive their musical, dance, and storytelling traditions.
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine helped to inspire Thomas Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence.
Common Sense