Social Studies Skills
A first hand account of an event - a journal from a time period, a diary, etc.
This was the major factor in the deaths of millions of Native Americans after their contact with the Spanish and other European nations.
What is disease?
The belief that colonies existed to benefit the economy of the Mother Country, and that finished goods were exchanged for raw materials, cash crops, and gold.
What is Mercantilism?
War in which American Colonies successfully reformed the Social and Political Order of a new nation, free from British control.
This was the primary reason that European nations started exploring.
What was establishing trade routes with Asia?
What is a peninsula?
The term used for the transfer of new materials, animals, and technology between the Old and New World.
These people were brought in to work on sugar and crop plantations in the Americas.
Who were slaves?
Crops grown to sell for money or exchange for finished goods.
What are cash crops?
This is what most Natives built their weapons and tools from.
What is wood, bone, and stone?
The term used to describe how something or someone adjusts to better survive in their environment.
The name of an all-water route through North America to the Pacific Ocean and Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The name given to the journey of African slaves across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is irrigation?
This individual was very important to the establishment of trade between the New World and Europe.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The way or life of a group of people, including clothes, food, religion.
Natives used these to keep themselves alive.
What are natural resources?
This was the name of the 1st successful English village in the Americas, established in 1609.
What is Jamestown?
This name for trade between the New World, Europe and Africa became a very commonly used nickname amongst business owners.
What is Triangular Trade?
This bartering of luxurious items was battled over by the French and English in the New World.
What was the Fur Trade?
The term used for the movement of a large group of people.
What is migration?
What is the Era of Exploration?
A special permission granted by the King of England to establish colonies in North America?
What is a charter?
These were the three names given to to the colonies, which were grouped into three separate categories based on their location.
What are the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies?
These people were brought over from Europe to work for others for four to seven years, before gaining freedom and starting their own lives.
What are indentured servants?