Vocabulary and DefinitionsWhich regio
What is a colony?
A group of people from one country who leave and occupy another land. Often, they remain under the control of country they are from.
Which region includes two states, that are separated form the rest, by land and water?
The West
Hawaii and Alaska are separated from the mainland states
The people of which cultural region made totem poles.
People of the Northwest
What land did the term "New World" refer to from the perspective of Europeans?
North America, South America, and the Caribbean
The Virginia Company founded the colony called__________.
Jamestown
What is the Silk Road?
A trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and China that Europeans established to trade for silk, spices, and cloth.
What are the names of the four states that comprise the Southwest?
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
The home region of the Lakota, Crow, Comanche, and Blackfeet people.
The Great Plains
The shortcut to Asia for trade that the English and Dutch each wanted to find. Did they find it?
They were looking for a Northwest Passage to shorten the time and cost of sailing to and from markets such as India and China. They never found it.
How many New England Colonies are there?
4 New England Colonies
Massachusetts (1629)
Rhode Island (1636,1638)
Connecticut (1636)
New Hampshire (1638)
Primary Source and Secondary Source examples
Primary Source: Diary, original photograph, or actual speech from time of event
Secondary Source: Writing/painting produced in response to event that already happened
The region that has a river running vertically through it (name it) and two large bodies of water as boarders(name them)?
The Southeast
Mississippi River
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean
The tribes of Eastern Woodlands
Cree, Algonquin, Iroquis, and Wampanoag
What is The Columbian Exchange? It had positive and negative effects for who?
The movement of people, plants, animals, and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean.
Positive effects for Native Americans:horses and wool.
Positive effects for Europeans: food from the Americas made diet better.
No Negative effects for Europeans.
Negative effects of enslavement and death for the Native Americans (Diseases killed 80%-90%)
The Puritans disagreed with what church ________and who didn't like them and persecuted them for their beliefs_________________and what company did they form to create a colony for themselves___________?
Church of England
New King Charles I (1625)
Massachusetts Bay Company
The names of the New England Colonies
Massachusetts 1629
Rhode Island 1636-38
Connecticut 1636
New Hampshire1638
The three states of the Northeast that begin with "New" and their capitals.
New Jersey, Trenton
New York, Albany
New Hampshire, Concord
The seven Native American Cultural Regions within the USA.
NW Coast
CA/Intermountain
Plateau
SW
Great Plains
Eastern Woodlands
SE
Name five European Explorers (1497 to 1610) and their home countries .
Bartolomeu Dias, Portugal
Vasco da Gama, Portugal
Christopher Columbus, Italian (sailed for Spain)
Giovanni da Verrazano, France
Jacques Cartier, France
Henry Hudson, England
Samuel de Champlain, France
Cabot, England
Quinnehtukqut is the Native American word that which state was named after?
Connecticut
The 3 types of Colonies and their definitions.
Charter: Granted by the British king or queen and allowed to establish their own government independent of the crown
Proprietary: In return for political favors, individuals were given huge tracts of land to supervise and govern.
Royal: Owned and ruled by the british monarch