Thinking Like a Historian
Native American Cultures
European Colonization
Colonial America
American Revolution
100
A first-hand account of someone who experienced the event at the time it happened is a...
Primary Source
100
Native Americans who lived in these TWO cultural areas were nomadic.
The Great Basin and Southwest
100
The first settlers to arrive at Plymouth came in search of what?
freedom to practice their religion.
100
What are the Salem Witch Trials mostly known for in US History?
Creating a year of mass hysteria that exposed the social tensions within society
100
What was the main cause of the French and Indian War?
The French and British claimed the same land.
200
This term means one-sided; unfair favoritism
bias
200
Native Americans who lived in these TWO cultural areas created more permanent settlements.
Northwest and Eastern Woodlands
200
The area in blue was colonized by which country?
Spanish
200
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years were referred to as what?
Indentured Servants
200
How did the first Great Awakening help pave the way for the American Revolution?
It encouraged colonists to oppose establishment thinking.
300
Which Historical Thinking skill is portrayed in the image?
Corroborating
300
What a similarity between all Native American cultural areas?
Culture is a result of their environment
300
Why did English colonies in the North base their economy on manufacturing rather than farming?
The cold climate and rocky soil were not good for growing cash crops.
300
What am I?
Representative assembly in colonial Virginia; the first form of representative government in the 13 colonies.
House of Burgesses
300
What was the goal of the Committees of Correspondence?
Increase resistance against unfair taxation
400
Which historical thinking skill do the following questions most closely relate to:
Who created it? From what perspective or point of view? When was it written? Why was it written? Is it reliable?
Sourcing
400
The area in yellow was colonized by which country? What Native American cultural areas did they come in contact with?
British; Eastern Woodlands and Southeast
400
Which colony am I?
Settled as a debtor colony and to keep Spain from advancing up the coast
Georgia
400
Which colony am I?
Founded by Roger Williams to keep the "separation of church and state".
Rhode Island
400
Which battle in the American Revolution was considered the major turning point, in which the American colonists began defeating the British in most battles?
Saratoga
500
The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?
When and where was the document created? What was different then? What was the same? How might the circumstances in which the document was created affect its content?
Contextualizing
500
What impact did the French and Indian War have on the Native Americans?
The Native Americans' traditional lands were now part of the British Empire.
500
What are THREE factors that led the south toward a reliance on slavery?
Spanish Florida outlawed slavery and sold all their workers inexpensively to Georgia, Bacon's Rebellion turned opinions against indentured servants towards slave, and Tobacco plantations needed more workers.
500
What did the Proclamation of 1763 say?
Colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains
500
This was the first Parliamentary Act that the American colonists began to boycott because of "no taxation without representation."
Stamp Act