The Beginning
Humans first evolved on this continent.
What is Africa
This first English Settlement in North America got lost because the people disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
This war was so expensive for Great Britain to win, they increased taxes on the colonists. This made the colonists mad.
What is the Seven Years War or the French and Indian War?
After making a mistake and killing some members of a French scouting party, this soldier became a hero when he led an attack on the French Fort Duquesne.
Who is George Washington?
This is the reason the white, elite leaders of the colonies decided they should break from Great Britain.
What is protecting their own wealth and power from Great Britain?
Bipedality, or walking on two legs, was an important characteristic of this species. Others were large brains, small teeth, and using tools.
What are hominins?
This settlement was the first British settlement to succeed.
What is Jamestown?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This leader of the second Congressional Congress signed his name so big on the Declaration of Independence, that now his name means "a signature."
Who is John Hancock?
These colonial elites realized that they could influence the Middle Class and others by declaring independence and creating the United States. This group realized that getting the less wealthy people on board would shift control of land and wealth from Britain to this elite group.
Who are the Founding Fathers?
What is the Clovis Theory?
Who is John Rolfe?
The Enlightenment (people learning), The Great Awakening (preachers connecting people with their God), the Zenger Court Case (created freedom of the press) and Salutary Neglect (England ignoring the colonists) were all this.
What are ideas, events, or movements that influenced colonial society and government?
This fraction represents how many colonists actually supported the Revolutionary War.
What is 1/5?
This idea has been part of our society from the start in Jamestown and has caused endless suffering for people.
What is racism?
When people have told the tale of Christopher Columbus, this has often been ignored.
What is the terrible treatment of the Indigenous people?
This phrase means that you enslave people based on their race/skin color and ended up causing white supremacy in the colonies.
What is racialized slavery?
Crispus Attucks died when mob of colonists and redcoats (British soldiers) started shooting at each other in this event leading up to the Revolutionary War.
What is the Boston Massacre?
What are battles in the Revolutionary War?
Black people, women and Indigenous People were not included in the Declaration of Independence when it stated this.
What is all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness?
(I know you won't get the exact quote..but you should get some main phrases.)
What is colonization?
This rebellion showed the rich people that Black and white people would join together around an issue important to them. Therefore, the rich people needed to make white people feel superior to prevent them from taking over the rich people.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This document, written by Thomas Jefferson and signed by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 told King George III we wanted to be our own country.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Forcing people into the military, not paying regular soldiers, and taking land or killing people who didn't support the Revolutionary War are examples of this.
What are things the United States did that were unfair during the Revolutionary War?
This is what you will do tonight for homework to prepare for your assessment.
What is study?