Sources
A biography is an example of this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
This pathogen (disease) resulted in the deaths of up to 90% of the indigenous population of the Americas.
What is smallpox?
This woman was the mother of the feminist movement.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
The social contract was an ideal important to this philosopher.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
What are cash crops?
Census data is an example of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
This brutal sea journey brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the middle passage?
Some Enlightenment era ideals originated during this earlier historical event.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Smith argued that capitalist economic systems would be guided by this.
What is an invisible hand?
This type of government was the norm in most European states during the 15th-18th centuries.
What is absolute monarchy?
Students should always use _________, or trustworthy, sources.
What is credible?
These people signed contracts to work for a set number of years; in exchange they received free passage to the Americas.
Who were indentured servants?
This philosopher argued in favor of capitalist economic systems.
Who is Adam Smith?
This philosopher believed that people possessed natural rights that could not be taken away.
Who is John Locke?
This was the only disease believed to travel from the Americas to Eurasia and Africa.
What is syphilis?
A photograph of Civil War soldiers is a good example of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
This term refers to the exchange of people, animals, plants, and diseases between the Americas and Eurasia/Africa.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
John Locke believed people were entitled to these three things.
What are life, liberty, and property?
Many Enlightenment-era ideals were included in this document, central to the creation of the United States.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Europeans began to "explore" in the 15th and 16th centuries in search of what?
A documentary about the American Revolution is this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
Christopher Columbus believed that these people were docile and could be easily controlled.
Who were the Taino?
This man believed that religious tolerance would benefit all societies.
Who is Voltaire?
This term refers to the exchange of crops, enslaved people, and weapons/finished goods between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This is Dr. Adams' favorite animal.
What is the cat?