Prehistoric America / Native Americans
Land bridge that connected the northeast tip of Asia and present-day Alaska. Hunter-gathers crossed this land bridge to migrate
What is Beringia?
A caravan road that travelers and merchants used to trade to India and China
What is the Silk Road?
The practice of one person legally owning another; involuntary servitude for life passed down to future generation
What is slavery?
Plymouth/ Massachusetts Bay,(present day Vermont and Maine) New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut
What is New England?
An Act where any printed goods had to be taxed and have stamp on it
What is Stamp Act?
The first Ancient civilization that flourished around 1200 BCE on the coast of Mesoamerica.
What is Olmec?
A period in Europe that was characterized by growing knowledge and innovation in technology. Gadgets like Astrolabes and Caravels were made at the time.
What is the Renaissance?
A trade route with three stops: Africa, the West Indies and the Americas.
What is The Triangular Trade?
A religious group of people who wanted to reform the Church of England so that would be more pure.
What is Puritans
King George III issued this to make it illegal for settlers to live west of the Appalachian Mountains in 1763. This angered a lot settlers
The place where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet. Anasazi lived in this area to farm
What is the Four Corners?
The exchange of plants, animals and germs between two hemispheres
What is the Colombian exchange?
On April 26, 1607 approximately 125 settlers reached the Chesapeake Bay and founded the first permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown?
What is pilgrim?
A popular piece of pamphlet that sold all over the colonies which is wrote by Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Mohawk, and Oneida combined in one
What is the Iroquois League?
A new kind of Spanish explorer who were given the thumbs-up from the king and queen to settle in the Americas in return for twenty percent of any treasures found
What is Conquistadors
A system when people were granted 50 acres of land in Virginia and 50 more acres for each person he brought him if they invest in the company
What is the Headright system?
Founded by William Penn. Home of the Quakers and free from persecution
What is Pennsylvania
A battle where General Burgoyne lost, waiting for back up in Canada and troops from New York and lost. Because of this battle, U.S got a huge help from France.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
A religious piece of work that's made of wood. Many of tribes who settled in the northwest made this.
What is the totem pole?
The decision that pope made to distinguish where to conquer among two countries; Spain and Portugal
A colony where king is in charge of everything. King chooses a governor to rule the colony in his place.
What is a Royal colony?
Started as a Proprietary colony. A King George Calvert gave to his brother Duke of York. Fought the dutch in 1664 and claimed the colony themselves.
What is New York?
A battle where Continental Army general George Washington and French General Rochambeau along with French Navy Admiral siege the Chesapeake Bay, Making British impossible to escape.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?