🏕️ Category 1: Native American Life
What were the Three Sisters?
✅ Corn, beans, and squash grown together.
Who wrote The Social Contract?
✅ Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Why was the Massachusetts Bay Colony established?
✅ For religious freedom.
What did the Iroquois Confederacy and the U.S. Constitution have in common?
✅ Both valued unity and shared power between groups.
Who is known as the Father of Liberalism?
✅ John Locke.
True or False: The Iroquois Confederacy made decisions by voting instead of discussion.
✅ False – they used consensus (agreement).
What did John Locke believe were people’s natural rights?
✅ Life, liberty, and property.
What were town meetings used for?
✅ Democratic decision-making in the colonies.
True or False: The Enlightenment promoted faith over reason.
✅ False – it promoted reason and science.
True or False: Colonization had no lasting effects on Native American societies.
✅ False – it caused major cultural and population changes.
What was the main purpose of Native American trade networks?
✅ To exchange goods and ideas between tribes.
Which philosopher introduced separation of powers?
✅ Baron de Montesquieu.
Which region focused on cash crops like tobacco and cotton?
✅ The Southern Colonies.
What idea did Rousseau’s Social Contract promote?
✅ Governments should protect the common good and be based on the people’s agreement.
What impact did European diseases have on Native Americans?
✅ They caused devastating population losses.
Who chose the male leaders in the Iroquois Confederacy?
✅ Clan mothers (women).
What was the main goal of Enlightenment thinkers?
✅ To use reason and logic to improve government and society.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
✅ An agreement for self-government made by the Pilgrims.
How did Native and European ideas differ about decision-making?
✅ The Iroquois used consensus; Europeans used laws and individual rights.
Why did colonists seek alliances with Native Americans?
✅ For trade and help in warfare.
How did Native American agriculture show sustainability?
✅ They grew crops that supported each other and protected the soil.
How did Enlightenment ideas challenge monarchies?
✅ They rejected divine right and argued that power comes from the people.
True or False: All colonial regions had the same economy and religion.
✅ False – they differed by geography and purpose.
Which two influences shaped American democracy?
✅ Native American political traditions and Enlightenment ideas.
Essay Bonus (Double Jeopardy!):
Compare how the Iroquois Confederacy and Enlightenment philosophers influenced American democracy.
✅ Both valued fair government; the Iroquois focused on unity and consensus, while Enlightenment thinkers emphasized individual rights and reason.