Vocabulary
What is a oral tradition?
Stories, traditions, and beliefs being passed down from generation to generation.
During the 15th and 16th centuries, what were European nations exploring the world for?
Gold, God, and Glory
Who was the English explorer that was hired by the Dutch, that now has a river named after him in New York City?
Henry Hudson.
Why did the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) join together?
To have peace and protection.
What European discovered America before Christopher Columbus?
Leif Erikson
What is a hunter-gatherer
Someone who hunts animals and gather wild plants.
People living in the thirteen colonies adopted/followed many of their rules of government from
Britain
The settlement at the mouth of the Hudson River that later became New York City was first established by
The Dutch.
What caused Native American groups, such as the Haudenosaunee, to be able to establish permanent settlements?
The environment provided for their basic needs for survival.
Who are the Indigenous people of America?
Native Americans.
What is Matrilineal?
Cultures being traced through the mother side of family.
Surviving long, cold winters was not a problem in which region? (Think of the Climate)
Southern Colonies
What happened when Europeans came into contact with Native Americans ?
Thousands of Native Americans died from diseases carried by the Europeans.
A land bridge(Bering Land Bridge) during the Ice Age allowed migration between which two continents?
Asia and North America
Who wrote most of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What is the Boston Massacre?
A shooting by the British that killed five colonist.
The British decided to pay the war debt of the French and Indian War by
Taxing the Colonists.
Where was Christopher Columbus trying to go when he "discovered" the New World?
Asia.
What was the name of the constitution/law the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) created?
The Great Law of Peace
Name 6 U.S States that were apart of the 13 colonies
Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Protest by the Colonist which they tossed over 300+ chest of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What was the main reason for the protest of taxes and laws imposed on the American colonists?
The colonists were NOT represented in Parliament.
For Europeans, what was most changed within the thirty years of Columbus’s arrival in San Salvador?
An understanding of world geography.
What tribes made up the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee?
Onondaga, Mohawk, Cayuga, Seneca, Oneida, and Tuscarora.
What are the names of the two waterways that are named after Henry Hudson?
Hudson Bay and Hudson River.