Benchmark
Glaciers from the last Ice Age and the old Ohio River bed left this in North America.
What is rich soil?
This is the study of people, their environments, and their resources.
What is Geography?
These are the colonists who were allowed to vote.
Who are white men that owned property?
These are the Mounds buit in Massac County.
What are the Kincaid Mounds?
The French and British were expanding and met / began to fight in this River Valley.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This water invention allowed the Native Americans to farm and stay in one place.
What is irrigation?
These are the 5 Themes of Geography.
What are location, place, interaction, movement, and region?
The Middle Colonies gained this nickname because of all the grain they grew.
What is the Breadbasket Colonies?
This man colonized Hispanolia, in North America, about 200 hundred years after the Mounds people had disappeared.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This Fort was constructed by the French to help them maintain control of the Ohio River Valley.
What is Fort De L'Ascension (Fort Massac)?
This economic theory allowed the British mainland to use the good and colonies only for their own benefits.
What is mercantilism?
These are materials that humans can take from the environment to survive and satisfy their needs.
What are Natural Resources?
A Global Exchange of good and diseases, between the Old World and the New World. It started in the late 1400s.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The Mounds provided this symbol for the Mississippian Culture to show importance.
What is a status symbol?
Both the French and British had this major negative in common from the French and Indian War.
What is a huge debt?
This slogan stood for: the American colonists thought that the taxes created by Great Britain were unfair because the colonies had no opportunity to vote on them.
What is "No Taxation without Representation?"
This is firsthand information about people or events.
What is a Primary Source?
This negative of the Columbian Exchange changed the drastically decreased the Native American's populations.
What are diseases?
This was the largest Mississippian City.
What is Cahokia?
To pay off the huge debt the British did this to the colonists.
What is raise taxes.
This event angered many American colonists, and killed 5 unarmed colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This is defined as leaning toward or against a certain person, group, or idea.
What is Bias?
These 2 European men were the first to explore present day Illinois.
Who are Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet?
These Native Americans constructed earthen mounds to house important structures on in order to project their power and defend themselves.
Who are the Mississippian Culture?
This Law/Act made sure that the British ideas of mercantilism were enforced in the colonies.
What are the Navigation Acts?