Geography
This landform is a large area of flat or gently rolling land, common in much of Indiana. .
What is a plain?
Buffalo, Tipis, prairie grasses are resources used by Native American's in this region.
What are the Great Plains?
Why did European explorers travel to the Americas?
European explorers searched for new trade routes, wealth, and land for their countries.
Why were many American colonists angry with Britain before the American Revolution?
Colonists were upset because they were taxed without representation in Parliament.
What are the five parts of ammendment number one?
Freedom of speech, religion, assembly, petition, and press
These imaginary lines run east to west and measure how far north or south a place is from the Equator.
What are lines of latitude?
This country sponsored many early explorers and conquistadors in the Americas.
What is Spain
What was the Boston Tea Party?
A protest where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to oppose British taxes.
Why did the Founding Fathers create a system of checks and balances?
To ensure one branch of government does not become too powerful.
A map that shows natural features like mountains, rivers, and plains is called this type of map.
What is a physical map?
What is why Native American groups had different cultures and lifestyles across regions?
Native American groups in different regions developed different ways of life because the environment and available resources were different. ?
This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec Empire in present-day Mexico.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
These harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 punished the American colonies—especially Boston—after the Boston Tea Party, and became known for uniting colonists in anger.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
What is the judicial branch?
The branch that interprets laws, includes the Supreme Court
Indiana is located in this region of the United States.
What is the Midwest?
This region used materials such as cactus, dirt, and clay to survive
A home built by Native Americans who lived in the dry desert regions.
A major negative effect of exploration was the spread of diseases to Native Americans.
What was one harmful impact of European exploration?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A document explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain.
What was one major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
The national government could not collect taxes.
This invisible line divides the Northern and Southern Hemisphere
What is the equator?
Storytelling was used to pass down history and teach important lessons.
What is the role of storytelling in Native American cultures?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
Colonists who wanted independence from Britain.
Who are the Patriots?
Why did early American colonists want self-govern
They believed people should have a say in their laws.