Unit 1
Human's first migrated to North and South America ________ ago
30,000
What made it possible for Europeans to begin exploring the world by sea?
Technology
Why did the Sons of Liberty dress as Native Americans during the Boston Tea Party?
To disguise themselves from the British authorities and complete the protest in secret.
What was the effect of the following events:
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
The beginnings of the American Revolution
What was the name of the geographic feature that allowed for humans to cross over from Asia into North America?
Bering Land Bridge or "Beringia"
What term was used to describe the Americas before the continents were given names?
The "New World"
Why did the Sons of Liberty boycott British goods?
What was the name of the battle that sparked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War?
Battle of Lexington and Concord
What was the name of the type of shelter Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands would create?
Longhouses
What does the "Middle Passage"refer to?
The inhumane and horrific journey of enslaved Africans being transported from Africa across the Atlantic to the colonies of the "New World"
What did Benjamin Franklin mean when he included "Join or DIE" in his famous cartoon used by the Sons of Liberty?
The colonies had do join together and unite against the British, or they would never have the ability to fight for themselves against taxes and tyranny.
What was the significance of the Battle of Saratoga?
It was a decisive win that convinced the French to officially join the war
What was the main resource of Native Americans living in the Great Plains?
Buffalo
What wiped out nearly 90% of the Native population of the Americas?
Diseases like smallpox and typhoid
What does "taxation without representation" mean?
Colonists believed British taxes were illegal, and Britain did not have the right to tax the colonists without giving them a voice in British Parlaiment (government)
What was the name of the battle that caused British Surrender and the signing of the Treat of Paris
Battle of Yorktown
What was the main reason different Native American cultures developed differently from one another?
Geography & Climate
What was the "Columbian Exchange"?
The transfer of goods, crops, culture, disease, and people between the Eastern and Western hemispheres (Europe and the Americas)
What label would best describe this colonist" We Americans have been under the British boot for too long. I say we should kick the British out of America. It's time for us to rule ourselves."
What is the author's purpose for writing this document: Deceleration of Independence
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
To sate the reasons why colonists wanted to separate from the British