Vocabulary
This is an area of land or a settlement that is ruled by another country. Europeans took colonies because they believed they had large amounts of resources and wealth.
What is a colony?
This biome is very hot and dry in the day, but cold at night. Its harsh environment makes for unique plants and animals to call it home.
What is a desert?
This person was a Portuguese prince. He never went on an expedition, but he paid for many explorers to explore the ocean.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
These two colonies are the first permanent colonies in New England. They were originally very strictly Puritan. (2 answers)
What is the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies?
These are the first two taxes placed on the colonists. One taxed sugar and the other taxed paper and all legal documents.
What is the Sugar Act and Stamp Act?
This means "rebirth." A period of great advancements in art, music, literature, and science that started in Italy and spread through Europe.
What is the Renaissance?
This is one of the landforms in the Western U.S. It is a dramatic rise from the nearby plains, and had high, jagged mountains.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
On October 31, 1517, this man nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg church. This move started the Protestant Reformation and got him excommunicated from the Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
This was the main idea the Middle colonies were founded under. William Penn was a big proponent (fighter) for this idea.
What is religious freedom?
This is the war that started the colonist's dissatisfaction with England. The British won, winning land for the colonists in the Ohio River Valley, but they were not allowed to move into the area. Colonists also had to pay heavy taxes for the war.
What is the French and Indian War?
This is a community of plants, animals, and other organisms that live in a particular environment.
What is a biome?
This economic region is found in the Western U.S. It is located in the prairie region and has rich soil, making it good for grain. It is also known as "America's Breadbasket."
What is the Great Plains?
This man invented the printing press, an invention that made books more widely available, raising the literacy rate in Europe.
Who is Johannes Gutenburg?
These were the main cash crops grown on Southern plantations. (3 answers)
What is tobacco, rice, and indigo?
These two events happened in Boston, Massachusetts. One event was caused by the Tea Act, where colonists were forced to buy tea from the British East India Company AND be taxed on it. The second started after disagreements between colonists and British soldiers, leading to five colonists to be shot and killed. (2 answers)
What is the Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre?
This is a form of farming where almost all the food planted and harvested is used to feed the farmers family. This was a common form of farming pre-industrialization.
What is subsistence farming?
This biome is known for its temperate zones that surround tropical areas. It is dense with trees and runs along the coast of the PNW.
What is a rainforest?
This is the belief that reframed European culture during the Renaissance to place more importance on the importance of each individual.
What is humanism?
This war, fought between 1676-1677, started due to the Wampanoag killing one of their own for helping the English. The two groups would then conduct small raids on each other, before 1676 where the colonists shot their chief, ending the war.
This quote summarizes the events of the American Revolution. No representation in Parliament, tax, protest, repeal, repeat.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
This is a document created by the pilgrims who sailed to Plymouth on the Mayflower. This agreement formed their government and acts as a framework for our modern Constitution.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This landform is found in the Eastern U.S. It is a large mountain range that stretches from Canada to Alabama.
What is the Applalachian Mountains?
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe. He died during the expedition, but his crew completed the mission for him.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
These are the two treaties that were signed in Pennsylvania with the Native group, the Lenni Lenape. The first treaty was signed by William Penn, promising friendship. The second was signed by Penn's sons following his death, and allowed colonists to take as much land as they could walk in a day and a half. (2 answers)
What is the Great Treaty and the Walking Treaty?
This document means "Great Charter." It was written in 1215 and established certain rights of English citizens and institutions and limited the power of the king. This document would inspire the Constitution.
What is the Magna Carta?
This is the first form of schooling in the United States. It was run in a one-room schoolhouse exclusively by female teachers. It existed in the New England colonies.
What is dame school?
This landform is located in the Eastern U.S. It is an expanse of rocky terrain and lakes that surrounds the Hudson Bay.
What is the Canadian Shield?
A finding made by Nicolaus Copernicus that went against Church teachings and got him excommunicated.
What is the discovery that the Earth revolves around the Sun / Heliocentric Theory?
This is the political head in Viginia. They created laws such as the Bacon Laws, which allowed for term limits on specific positions.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Recite the Preamble.
We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and establish blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.