Sourcing
A writer's central idea or argument.
What is a claim?
One way Indigenous people shaped their environment.
What is building mounds?
What is building road networks?
What is farming?
What is using fire to shape forests?
The people who lived in North and South America for thousands of years before Columbus arrived.
Who are Native Americans?
The goal of mercantilism is for a country to ________ more than they _______.
What is import and export?
One cause of death in the early years of Jamestown.
What is disease?
What is brackish water?
What is conflict with Indigenous people?
What is starvation?
A benefit indentured servants could expect at the end of their contract.
Laws made to restrict the freedom and movement of free and enslaved Black colonists.
What are slave codes?
The position from which someone has experienced an event.
What is point of view?
True or False: Indigenous people were part of one giant society.
What is false?
There are over 500 federally recognized Indigenous nations, proving that many distinct nations existed in North America prior to European contact.
The place Columbus was trying to reach; also the incorrect name he gave to Indigenous people he met.
What is India/Indians?
Colonies exported these types of goods to Great Britain.
What are raw materials?
When Jamestown colonists were starving, they got so desperate for food that they ate __________.
What are dead bodies?
Indentured servants came to North America from ______.
What is England?
One of the ways enslaved people resisted their enslavers.
What is running away?
Multiple sources strengthen a specific claim.
What is corroboration?
The government style of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Six Nations.
What is democracy?
The ocean Columbus crossed in order to make it from Europe to the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What are manufactured goods?
Water that is too salty to drink.
What is brackish water?
A key difference between indentured servants and enslaved people.
What is being set free after a set period of time?
What is a contract in which the servant receives some sort of benefit from their employer?
What is the choice to become an indentured servant?
One of the acts prohibited in the Virginia Slave Codes and its punishment.
What is intermarriage (white people sent to prison), resisting your enslaver (30 lashes), marrying an interracial couple (pay a fine), resisting a white person (30 lashes), carrying a weapon (20 lashes), running away (death, dismemberment)?
The people an author is writing for.
What is the audience?
The population of this Native American city was greater than London at the same time.
Cahokia
An argument against Columbus Day
What is genocide?
What is the enslavement of Native Americans?
What is a lack of discovery?
Three of the raw materials the colonies were producing.
What are cotton, tobacco, and timber?
John Smith, one of the leaders of the colony, claimed that _______ and ______________ were to blame for the high number of deaths.
What is laziness and poor organization?
Indentured servants typically served a contract for this amount of time.
What is 5-7 years?
The production of _______ in the Virginia colony increased alongside the population of __________.
What are tobacco and enslaved people?
They strengthen your argument through corroboration.
What are multiple sources?
This Native American nation built more than 400 miles of roads for trading purposes.
Who are the Pueblo People?
One argument for Columbus Day.
What is he was simply a "man of his time?"
What is promoting discovery?
What is honoring the contributions of Italian Americans?
Three of the manufactured goods Great Britain was exporting back to the colonies.
What are furniture, glass, and textiles?
At its smallest, Jamestown shrunk to the low number of ____ colonists.
What is 40?
A factor in England that led people to seek out indentured servitude in the colonies.
What is no chance of owning land OR poverty and unemployment?
1. Enslavers were kind.
2. Enslaved people did not resist their enslavers.
3. Enslaved people had little skills and all worked in the fields.
What are 3 myths about slavery?