Unit 1
This planting system used by the Aztecs and Maya involves a trio of crops (maize, beans, and squash).
What is Three Sisters farming?
This term describes the exchange of crops, animals, and diseases that transformed societies on both sides of the Atlantic after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This act, passed in 1862, encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land in exchange for a small fee and the requirement to live on the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Initiated in the New Deal era, this approach to environmentalism emphasizes the sustainable and efficient use of natural resources to benefit the most people over the longest period of time.
What is conservationism?
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Who is Jordan Love?
These types of houses were common among the Iroquois (Northwest), reflecting their mixed agricultural society and environmental adaptation.
What are longhouses?
Fertile land promoted abundant grain production, ultimately leading to the nickname "Breadbasket"
What are the Middle Colonies?
This event is characterized by the discovery of a lucrative mineral in western territories, which prompted a mass migration from all over.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This international holiday, launched by conservationists in the 1970s, celebrates a day of bringing awareness to global environmental issues.
What is Earth Day?
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Who is David Bakhtiari?
This is the lifestyle that Native American tribes depended on in the Great Basin/Great Plains due to the dry climate and non-arable land.
What is a nomadic lifestyle?
These colonies were settled by Pilgrims (came in family groups) in the 1620s and relied on logging & shipbuilding
What are the New England Colonies?
The British unspoken practice of ignoring restrictive colonial trade policies.
What is salutary neglect?
This 1970s event, characterized by an embargo and increasing prices, highlighted the United States' vulnerability regarding its energy consumption.
What is the OPEC oil crisis?
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Who is AJ Dillon?
The process of capturing and selling human beings: used by Europeans to add on to the labor force and to replace American Indians (dying from disease and brutality).
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
This colony's early economy was initially stunted by a focus on searching for precious metals and shifting to tobacco cultivation.
What is Jamestown (or the Virginia colony)?
the contentious idea that British Parliament members represented & spoke for every British citizen, including the colonists
This agency was proposed by Richard Nixon in 1970 and was significant to the environmental movement, regulating pollutants and protecting human health (and the environment).
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
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Who is Anders Carlson
This was the agreement that established Portuguese control over Brazil and Spanish control over the rest of the Americas in 1494.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This agricultural technique (allowed by the Columbian Exchange) involved the use of animals in farming and was unknown to Native Americans prior to European contact
What is Beasts of Burden?
This 1787 Act promoted public education, protected private property, but more importantly abolished slavery in the NW territory and outlined how western territories could apply for statehood
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This environmental science book by Rachel Carson started the banning of DDT and inspired an ecological consciousness in the U.S.
What is "Silent Spring?"
Coolest name (initials: DW)
Who is Dontayvion Wicks?