Geography
Native Americans
Age of Exploration
Colonial Settlements
Causes of the American Revolution
100
using degrees latitude and longitude to describe where some place is.
What is absolute location?
100
This is a land mass that is no longer visible as it was covered by the rising level of the oceans at the end of the last Ice Age.
What is Beringia?
100
Trade along this overland route to Asia was dangerous and expensive.
What is the Silk Road?
100
This was the first permanent English settlement.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
100
an economic policy in which England got rich by controlling colonial trade
What is mercantilism?
200
Some examples of these are the mountains, rivers, lakes, plains, oceans.
What are physical features?
200
These are the first people to cross into North America.
Who are the Paleo-Indians? (or hunter-gatherers?)
200
soldiers returning from these holy wars brought new goods and ideas.
What are the Crusades?
200
These Separatists went to the New World to start a new life.
Who are the Pilgrims?
200
These are laws to control colonial trade such as charging duties on foreign imports and requiring the colonies to sell certain items only to England.
What are the Navigation Acts
300
This is when people alter their surroundings or when their surroundings affect how people live and behave.
What is the interaction between people and the environment?
300
This is the reason why so many different Native American cultures developed in North America
What are the different environmental conditions?
300
Curiosity about the world helped start this time period of learning and art.
What is the Renaissance?
300
warfare, famine, political oppression, religious persecution
What are examples of push factors
300
According to Parliament, debt from this war should be paid by the colonists.
What is the French & Indian War?
400
This is one of the physical regions of the United States in which is found the Ohio River Valley and excellent farmland
What is the central lowlands
400
These Native Americans were living on the islands "discovered" by Christopher Columbus.
Who are the Taino?
400
Some explorers searched the North American continent for a way through to the Pacific Ocean; known as this.
What is the Northwest Passage?
400
It was settled for people needing a new start in life due to debts
What is Georgia
400
the expense of British soldiers' housing and food stationed in a colony would be paid by the colonists living there
What is the Quartering Act?
500
This is one of the physical regions of the United States in which is found many natural ports and harbors and level beaches leading to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Atlantic Coastal Plains
500
Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida, and Mohawk.
What are the five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy?
500
This ship is an example of new technology in sailing during the Age of Exploration.
What is the caravel?
500
the General Court, the House of Burgesses, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Pennsylvania Assembly
What are examples of colonial self-government?
500
Colonial merchants agreed to not import goods from England.
What are nonimportation agreements?