Early Native Americans
The Native American culture practices _________ and ____________ as a mean to gather food for a subsistence lifestyle.
Hunting- and Gathering- animals provided food, clothing, shelter, and tools, small game, fishing, gathering nuts, berries, and fruit along grains.
What was the primary purpose of Columbus’s first voyage in 1492?
Finding a new route to Asia/ India.
What was the dominant religion in Europe before the Reformation?
Catholicism
The voyages of Columbus and others led to the introduction of new plants and animals to Europe, Africa, and Americas. When they returned to the Americas, ships brought items from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere.
What was the Columbian Exchange
How did the European slave trade impact the economies of both Europe and the American colonies?
Fueling European wealth through trade and supporting plantation economies in the colonies with enslaved labor
Explain how Native Americans would choose what animal to hunt and kill.
hint: furture hunting in mind
Native Americans would carefully choose which animals to hunt based on the need to preserve animal populations for future hunts. They often targeted older or weaker animals, allowing younger and healthier ones to continue breeding and maintaining the species for the future.
This man committed himself to the Society of Friends, or Quakers, a Protestant sect whose social and religious beliefs were quite radical for the time.
Who was William Penn
What was the social hierarchy in European societies during this time
A system with monarchs, nobles, and priests at the top and peasants at the bottom
This theory explains that a country’s ultimate goal was self-sufficiency and that all countries were in a competition to acquire the most gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
How did geography influence the economic activities of the New England colonies?
The rocky soil, dense forests, and harsh climate of New England made large-scale farming difficult, so colonists focused on industries like shipbuilding, fishing, whaling, and small-scale subsistence farming. Its many harbors also encouraged trade and maritime commerce, making the economy more dependent on the sea than on agriculture.
How did Native Americans view land ownership compared to Europeans?
Native Americans believed land was a communal resource and could not be owned.
This man first gained experience in the French and Indian War (1754–1763), where he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia.
Who was George Washington?
Preachers would travel from village to village, stirring people to rededicate themselves to God. Traveling preachers attracted thousands, making it necessary for revival meetings on large scale outdoor basis.
What was the Great Awakening?
In an effort to lure settlers to Jamestown, the Virginia Company introduced this system in 1618, anyone who paid for their own or another’s passage to Virginia received 50 acres of land.
What was the headright system?
What was the primary purpose of the large mounds built in Cahokia, and what do they reveal about the society’s structure?
Ceremonial and burial purposes, revealing a social hierarchy and complex sophisication in their architectural creations that had not been seen by European exploerers before
How did the end of the Ice Age around 10,000 years ago impact the early Americans' way of life?
It led to the disappearance of the land bridge and a shift to hunting small game and gathering.
Who is the Portuguese prince who established a school for navigation and sponsored early voyages along the African coast?
Prince Henry the Navigator
What was the Renaissance, and how did it influence European exploration?
A period of renewed interest in classical knowledge that sparked exploration
What were the primary economic activities of the Middle colonies, and how did they earn the nickname “breadbasket colonies”?
They earned the nickname “breadbasket colonies” because they produced such large amounts of grain, especially wheat, which was milled into flour and exported to other colonies and Europe.
A system in which Native Americans farmed, ranched, or mined for Spanish landlords for little or no pay.
What was the encomienda system?
Explain three ACCURATE ways in which Native Americans used ALL parts of the animal for survival.
bones for tools, stomach for boiling pots, teeth for sharp points, scapulas for shovels, hides for warmth and protection and shelter, meat for food.
This man established the Massachusetts Bay colony and the port town of Boston became the capital. " city upon a hill" guy
Who was John Winthrop?
How did religious tolerance vary among the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies?
New England- strict Puritan
Middle- religiously tolerant
Southern- slightly tolerant, new denominations like methodidts and baptists
Spain and Portugal agreed to divide the Western Hemisphere between them. Lands to the west of the imaginary vertical line in the Atlantic ocean, which included most of the Americas, belonged to Spain, land to the east of this line, which included Brazil, belonged to Portugal.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas
What were the primary economic activities in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies, and how did they differ?
Shipbuilding, fishing and trade in New England,
Grain and livestock, small scale agriculture farming in the Middle colonies,
and plantation agriculture in the Southern colonies