Category 1: Native Americans & European Exploration
What allowed Native Americans to migrate into the Americas?
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
This is the first example of English colonists agreeing to self-govern, for the "general good"
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These are the two Nations fighting in the French and Indian War:
Who are England and France?
The name of the movement in Europe that emphasized reason and natural rights, over traditional forms of authority like Kings.
What is the Enlightenment?
The law that, in response, led Colonists to dump Tea into Boston Harbor
What is the Tea Act? (Tax on Tea)
What factor led to diverse cultures in North America before European Exploration
What is regional geography?
Geographic conditions made this type of lifestyle difficult in the New England Colonies
What is farming?
British: Colonists
French: Native Americans
John Locke’s theory of Natural Rights argues that rights are given to people by…
Who is God?
The Townshend acts, led to this act of protest towards British businesses:
What is: A boycott?
300 pts: European exploration was mainly driven by…
What are the 3 G's? (Gold, God, Glory)
High rates of growth of wheat gave these colonies the nickname, "The Breadbasket Colonies"
What are the Middle Colonies?
Native American resistance against British settlement after the French and Indian War, in modern-day Detroit.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
Voltaire's criticism of the French Church was an example of his belief in the Freedom of:
What is: Speech and Religion?
The Intolerable Acts were delivered as a punishment, specifically on Massachusetts, for this.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between continents
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The Southern Colonies relied on slave labor due to their economy revolving around these.
What are "Cash Crops"?
The result of the Proclamation of 1763.
What is: The British Govt. forbidding Colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains?
How did Montesquieu want to limit tyranny in Governments? (Would later directly impact US Govt)
What is Separation of Powers?
What is: Martial Law?
This Spanish priest protested Spanish mistreatment of Native Americans.
Who is Bartolome De Las Casas?
The name of the grueling, dangerous, claustrophobic journey that enslaved people would make to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This result of the French and Indian War helped lead the colonies down the road to revolution...
What is: War debt, British Government wanted to make the money they spent on the war back, leads to new taxes?
Rousseau's Social Contract Theory states that if the Government doesn't hold up its end of the bargain...
What is: The people have the right to overthrow it?
What is the Boston Massacre?