Why Did Europeans Come to America?
These were the three main crops grown by many Native American tribes and often called the "Three Sisters."
What are corn, beans, and squash?
This group of workers agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage to America.
Who were indentured servants?
These 13 areas broke away from British rule during the American Revolution.
What are the colonies?
This term means focusing on the interests of one part of a country rather than the whole.
What is sectionalism?
Laws that limited the rights of Africans and African Americans in the colonies were called this.
What are slave codes?
Many Europeans came to America hoping to find this shiny yellow metal.
What is gold?
This system of forced labor was based on race and became more common as colonial laws changed in the 1600s.
What is slavery?
This war helped the 13 colonies become the United States.
What is the American Revolution?
The North and South had different systems for this, a big cause of their conflicts.
What are economic?
The Constitution created this division of power between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
Some Europeans came to spread this religion to Native people.
What is Christianity?
In the 1640s–1660s, colonies began passing laws that took away rights from this group of people.
Who were Africans and African-Americans?
After the war, the colonies needed to create this to run their new country.
What is a government?
Besides economics and slavery, differences in these two types of values also divided the North and South.
What are cultural and political values?
This battle was the first military conflict of the American Revolution in 1775.
What is Lexington and Concord?
Over time, European settlers forced this group of people to work on farms and plantations in America. (be specific)
Who were the enslaved Africans?
True or False: Both white Europeans and Africans came to the colonies as indentured servants in the early 1600s.
What is True?
This was the first written plan for the U.S. government, later replaced by the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The North and South had very different economies; the South depended mostly on this type of farming system.
What is plantation farming?
This compromise counted enslaved people as part of state populations for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Besides gold and land, some Europeans came to America to increase their country's power and compete with rival nations. What is this called?
What is imperialism?
The desire to spread Christianity was part of this phrase often used to describe European motives: “Gold, Glory, and ____.”
What is God?
The Declaration of Independence was signed in this year.
When is 1776?
Besides slavery, name one other major difference between the North and South that increased sectional tensions.
What is cultural values OR political beliefs?
This agreement at the Constitutional Convention resolved disputes over legislative representation by creating a two-house legislature, though it did not directly decide how enslaved people would be counted.
What is the Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise)?