Geography, the Environment, Migration, and Settlement
The spread of this crop among indigenous populations in the Americas prior to colonization had a significant impact on many native cultures.
What is corn/maize?
This cash crop, introduced to Virginia by John Rolfe, led to the development of significant wealth in Virginia's colonial era.
What is tobacco?
This colonial region was predominantly settled by single men who came hoping to profit by growing cash crops.
What is the Chesapeake (or the South)?
This war over territory west of the Ohio River Valley involved colonists, indigenous people, and people from multiple European nations.
What is the Seven Years' War (aka the French and Indian War)?
This group of revolutionaries boycotted British goods and created their own substitutes at home.
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
This decision by Thomas Jefferson roughly doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The Constitution created a bicameral legislature to settle debates over how these two types of states would be represented in government.
What are large and small states?
Preachers like George Whitefield who traveled from England to the colonies in America, as well as print material that made the same journey, contributed to this religious movement in the mid-1700s.
What is the First Great Awakening?
The first colonies in the Americas were established by this European nation.
What is Spain?
What is New England?
This was the primary goal of the British in establishing colonies in what would become the United States.
What is profit?
This uprising by former members of the Continental Army who suffered financial difficulty because they had not been paid led to the realization that the Articles of Confederation did not work as a form of government.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Thomas Jefferson envisioned America developing into a country whose economic activity could best be described in this way.
What is agrarian?
This group of colonists was responsible for the Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, the Olive Branch Petition, and the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Second Continental Congress?
This was the idea that women should be educated in order to give their sons the early childhood education that would prepare them to vote later in life.
What is Republican Motherhood?
The introduction of this life form from Europe significantly impacted the lifestyle of the nomadic Plains Indians.
What are horses?
As a result of new wealth from colonies in the Americas, many European countries shifted away from this older system and towards capitalism.
What is feudalism?
This woman's exile from the Massachusetts Bay colony in the 1630s for openly defying church teachings demonstrated the intensity of the religious homogeneity in many New England communities.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
Fur trapping colonists from this nation generally got along with their indigenous neighbors and frequently intermarried with them.
What is France?
Enslaved people found both overt and covert ways to do this.
What is resist/rebel?
Many historians believe that the very first people in the Americas got here from Asia by doing this.
What is crossing a land bridge?
This British nobleman is best remembered for recruiting enslaved people to fight for the British side in the American Revolution by promising them freedom.
Who is Lord Dunmore?
This belief system, popular among educated Americans like Thomas Jefferson, combined a belief in a higher power with a belief in the laws of nature and Enlightenment-era scientific ideas.
What is deism?
The French were convinced to help the colonists fight against the British when the colonists defeated the British in this battle.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This uprising in colonial Virginia was notable because working people of multiple races worked together to seek the right to take over land to the west of the colonial border.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?