Vocabulary
This word describes power structures in a society.
What is hierarchy?
This group of deeply religious people immigrated to North America due to persecution in England.
Who are the Puritans?
Most historians identify this as the most important grievance between the 13 Colonies and Britain.
What are taxes?
This event forcefully transported roughly 12 million Africans world wide between the 1400-1800's.
What is the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade?
This group of colonies was based around lumber, fishing, and trade.
What is the Northern Region?
This word describes the act of settling or conquering a land where others already live.
What is colonization?
This prominent tribe was dominant in the Great Plains of modern day United States such as North and South Dakota.
Who are the Sioux?
The start of North American slavery can typically be traced to this year in Virginia.
What is 1619?
This global event traded diseases, foods, animals, people, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds in the 1500-1600's.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Virginia (or Jamestown)?
Naturally occurring things that people are born with and can't have taken away (life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness)
What are unalienable rights?
This famous Viking landed in North America roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
Who is Lief Erikson?
These were the 4 major cash crops in the Southern Region.
What are tobacco, rice, cotton, and indigo?
This event marked the first official meeting of the 13 Colonies, with the exception of Georgia.
What is the First Continental Congress?
These continents are considered part of the "New World".
What are North and South America?
This was an economic system based around countries exporting goods to obtain power and wealth
What is mercantilism?
This famous explorer was the first to sail an expedition around the entire globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Most early explorers were searching for trade routes to this continent.
The event is considered the first major conflict in the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
These were the 3 most dominant countries during the Age of Exploration.
What are England, France, and Spain?
The idea that the government should make decisions based on people's wants and needs.
What is popular sovereignty?
This conquistador famously colonized the Aztec Empire in Central America.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
This is the land bridge that connected Asia to North America during the last Ice Age.
What is Beringia (or the Bering Strait)?
This major conflict put England into debt in the mid 1700's.
What is the French/Indian or 7 Years War?
Christopher Columbus mistakenly thought he was in India when he landed here.
What are the West Indies?