Native Americans
These are the four cultural regions of Native Americans
What are the Pacific Northwest, Desert Southwest, Plains, and Eastern Woodlands?
These places, set up by the Catholic church, were created to teach religion and try to convert Native Americans
What are missions?
This was the first permanent European settlement in North America
What is St. Augustine?
This act put a tax on every kind of printed material, including; pamphlets, playing cards, and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This man was chosen to lead the continental army
Who is George Washington?
These are the reasons Native Americans lived near water
What are transportation, fresh water for drinking, and food?
This Portuguese explorer sailed up and down the continents of North and South America and eventually had the continents named after him
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This settlement was taken over by the British and renamed New York.
What is New Amsterdam?
This killing of five innocent colonists on King's Street by British soldiers was etched by Paul Revere and used to spread the idea of revolt.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This was the final major battle of the revolution. George Washington and his French allies trapped General Cornwallis and forced his surrender
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The marching of Native Americans, especially Cherokee, to new reservations in the west. This march killed thousands of Native Americans
What is the Trail of Tears?
The capture of this city by the Ottoman Empire forced Europeans to seek a new water route to Asia
What is Constantinople?
Most colonists came for these two reasons
What are religious freedom and land (wealth)?
This group of colonists sabotaged, boycotted, and terrorized British loyalists
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This war was fought for control of North America. English colonists fought against French soldiers and Native Americans. The English colonists won and took all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River
What was The French and Indian War?
This law was passed during the presidency of Andrew Jackson and gave the U.S the right to take Native American lands
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This explorer lead a Spanish and Native American army against the Aztecs, eventually destroying them and building Mexico City on top of the Aztec Capital.
Who was Hernando Cortes?
The growth of slavery was caused by this
What is the plantation system?
This was the first battle of the American Revolution. British soldiers trying to confiscate guns came across an American militia in this small Massachusetts town
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
These mercenary soldiers were hired by the British to help fight the colonists during the Revolutionary War
Who are the Hessians?
This Native American leader tried to bring tribes together to oppose the migration of settlers into the Ohio River Valley. He was later killed fighting the U.S during the War of 1812.
Who was Tecumseh?
This was the first European given credit for sailing around the world... even though he died along the way
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
A person that couldn't afford passage to America would work for free for a contracted period of time. They were known as this.
What is an indentured servant?
This document, written by Thomas Jefferson, laid out the reasons the colonists were seeking to separate themselves from the British Empire... "All men are created equal"
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This battle was the "Turning Point" of the revolution and convinced the French that helping the Americans was worth it
What is The Battle of Saratoga?