The First Americans, Exploration, and Colonization
Methods by which the first Americans reached the Americas.
What are land routes and boats?
New England
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What are colonial regions?
The emergence of an industrialized economy.
What is industrialization?
Division of the United States into free states, slave states, and territories open to slavery by popular sovereignty.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
72 years.
What is the average lifespan of an adult?
Regions in which Native people likely built shelters from buffalo skins
What are Great Plains?
Economic desire for wealth, religious freedom, population pressure.
What are factors contributing to (British) colonization?
Prevented further British colonization of territories in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
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What are soft skills?
Farming provided a more reliable source of food than hunting in this Native American civilization.
What is Cahokia?
Queen Anne’s War (1702-13)
Salutary Neglect
Seven Years’ War (1754-63)
What are political and military conflicts?
Often called "The Second War for American Independence," the British helped Native Americans, stopped U.S. ships, and burned many buildings including the White House, during this conflict.
What is the War of 1812?
People living in the territories determine status of newly admitted states as free or slave.
What is (the doctrine of) popular sovereignty?
Data analysis
What is a hard skill?
Trade and exposure to new ideas increased interest in the world outside Europe, resulting in a Renaissance in Europe.
What are effects of the Crusades?
Demographic expansion (population growth), distinct colonial culture (Georgian architecture), and the First Great Awakening where Protestant evangelizers drew large crowds by emphasizing personal piety
What are social and cultural changes?
A huge piece of land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
67 years.
What is the average age of retirement?
Effects of this historical process and long-term development included destruction of Native American populations from European diseases and introduction of new foods to both Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Educated writers challenged many accepted ideas about government and society. These ideas swept through European society and to colonial America, where they influenced the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Enlightenment?
Effort, Communication, and Growth
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