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Peopling the Americas
Early America
Colonial America
American Revolution
U.S. Constitution
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People who move from place to place in search of food and water.
What is a nomad?
100
An Italian explorer sent by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand to find a route to Asia also known as the founder of America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
The first permanent English settlement established in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.
What is the colony of Jamestown?
100
British policy in which the American colonies were viewed as a market for British goods, a source of raw materials, and a producer of goods.
What is mercantilism? Mother country profits from its colonies.
100
Considered too weak because the state governments were more powerful than the national/federal/central government.
What are the Articled of Confederation?
200
Native Americans known as ancient desert farmers because they introduced crops into the Southwest.
Who are the Hohokam and Anasazi?
200
The three main reasons people made voyages to the Americas.
What are gold, land and religion? Conquistadors in search of gold and land. Missionaries sent to convert natives to Christianity.
200
Native Americans who helped the Jamestown colonists through a harsh winter known as the "starving time".
Who are the Powhatan? John Smith "He that will not work...shall not eat"
200
As the indentured servant population decreased these people were brought to the colonies to work on plantations as a part of a transatlantic trade network known as the triangular trade.
Who are African slaves? slaves, rum, sugar/molasses
200
These plans provided a system for dividing Western lands and admitting new states into the union.
What are the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? Land Ordinance- plan for dividing western lands NW Ordinance- provide a procedure for admitting new states.
300
Native Americans known as Mound Builders whose civilization developed east of the Mississippi River.
Who are the Adena, Hopewell and the Mississippian?
300
The main cause of Native American deaths during the Encounter.
What is disease? Deadly diseases such as measles, mumps, chicken pox, and especially smallpox.
300
After a slow start Jamestown begins to flourish through the sale of a cash crop developed by John Rolfe.
What is tabacco? Became known as "brown gold"
300
An event that led up to the American Revolution in which the "sons of Liberty" dumped 18,000 pounds of tea into the Boston harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party? Result from the tea tax that was put in place with the Stamp Act. Sons of Liberty created to protest the Stamp Act.
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Considered the "father of the Constitution" drafted the Virginia plan that proposed a bicameral [2 house] legislature with membership based on poulation.
Who is James Madison? Voters elect members to the lower house, who would then elect members to the upper house.
400
Descendants of the Hohokam and Anasazi who built cliff houses.
Who are the Pueblo?
400
An exchange of plants, animals, technology, disease etc. between the New World and Europe, Africa and Asia.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
These two were banished from the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony because of their religious beliefs and teachings.
Who are Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams? Roger Williams believed colonists should purchase land from the native Americans and people be free to worship how they pleased. Founds Providence colony [Rhode Island] Anne Hutchinson taught that people didn't need to go to church to worship God.
400
Thomas Jefferson was inspired by this Enlightenment philosopher when writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke? Life, liberty and property. Consent of the governed.
400
He combined part of the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan to create the Great Compromise which is what became the Constitution.
Who is Roger Sherman? NJ Plan- 1 house, 1 rep per state Great Compromise- 2 house, 3/5 compromise, 1 house based on pop, 1 house 2 reps each.
500
Native American tribe who lived in the Eastern Woodlands known for their longhouses and canoes.
Who are the Iroquois?
500
Treaty between Spain and Portugal in which they agreed to divide the Western Hemisphere between them.
What is the Treat of Tordesillas? Lands to the west of an imaginary vertical line drawn in the Atlantic including most of the Americas belonged to Spain. Lands east including Brazil belonged to Portugal.
500
A Quaker who set up a colony that allowed for freedom of religion and had peaceful relations with Native Americans for more than 50 years.
Who is William Penn?
500
Considered the final battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
500
Because our founding father feared a strong national government and wanted to protect the peoples' rights they included these two things in the Constitution.
What are separation of powers [checks and balances] and the Bill of Rights?