Native Nations/Cultural Regions
This cultural region had homes constructed in the form of Wigwams and Longhouses.
What is the Northeast?
What is the difference between a push and pull factor?
Push factor- pushes you out of a region
Pull factor- pulls you to a region
What important job was missing from the first two years of colonists in the Jamestown colonies?
What are farmers.
By the 1700s, all 13 colonies were under control of this European Nation.
What is the British (England)
What is the definition of a cash crop?
A crop that creates a lot of money for farmers.
The Great Plains cultural region was home to Native American nations that relied on this animal.
What is the bison/buffalo?
Define the Columbian Exchange.
The Columbian Exchange was the transfer of animals, plants, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Africa, and Asia following their introduction to one another.
King Phillips War was between which two groups?
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire made up which region of the 13 colonies.
What is New England?
Provide two examples of a push and pull factor.
Push: religious intolerance, economic troubles, lack of land
Pull: religious freedom, economic opportunity, more land.
How did the Southwest culture regions respond to their geography?
Using adobe (mix of straw and clay) to build, building irrigation systems to manage and save water for farming.
What is the fur trade?
The New England colonies were mainly what denomination of Christianity?
Who are the Puritans?
Explain the Geography for New England, The Middle Colonies, and The Southern Colonies.
New England- rocky soil, poor farming
Middle Colonies- fertile soil, breadbasket
Souther Colonies- fertile soil, long growing season, cash crops
What are the three sisters?
Corn (Maize), Beans, and Squash
The Haudenausaunee created the Great Law of Peace, establishing this type of government.
What is a democracy?
What is the Middle Passage? What were conditions like?
The journey from Africa to the Americas that enslaved Africans were forced to go on. Conditions were terrible- overcrowding, disease spreading, etc.
Why were the Salem Witch Trials considered an abuse of power and an example of judicial (court) problems?
Use of spectral evidence until the Mayor's wife was accused.
New England was this denomination of Christianity.
Who are the Puritans?
Jamestown colony was able to reach economic success due to the cultivation of this cash crop.
What is tobacco?
This is the name for the Native American Nation that is indigenous to NYC land.
Who are the Lenape?
List the European Nations that we discussed that participated in colonization in the Americas.
France, England, Netherlands (Dutch), Spain, Portugal
Write a DBQ thesis statement based on the following question: How was life for early colonists?
Thesis
Describe the different in terms of religion between New England and the Middle Colonies.
New England- primary Puritan with strict rules for following religion
Middle Colonies- religious diversity
Describe an example of a check and balance located in the Haudenausaunee's Great Law of Peace
Women of the tribe being able to remove Chiefs that were ineffective and not ruling in the best interest of the entire tribe.