Native American Societies
Native Americans call corn
What is maize
Three motivations for European exploration
Spanish conquerors
What are conquistadors?
War fought between the French, their Native American allies, and the British
What was the Seven Years' War / The French and Indian War?
Thomas Jefferson's political party
What is Democratic-Republican?
Hunters and gatherers lived
What is nomadically
The first European to step foot in North America
Motivation for French and Dutch colonists
What is the fur trade?
A tax on the colonists that punished Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party
What were the Coercive Acts?
The Great Compromise - aka Connecticut Compromise - created this kind of government
What is a bicameral legislature? (Equal representation in the Senate and population representation in the House)
Planting corn, beans, and squash together
What is three-sisters farming
A Renaissance invention that encouraged or helped exploration
What are gunpowder, sailing compasses, new ships, mapmaking, and printing presses
Portuguese and Spanish labor system that enslaved Native Americans
What is the encomienda system?
Meeting between 7 of the 13 colonies led by Ben Franklin during the Seven Years' War where a plan for a unified colonial government was proposed but not approved
What was the Albany Congress?
Who are the Barbary Pirates?
The land bridge that Native American ancestors crossed during the ice age
What is the Bering Strait
The Columbian Exchange devastated Native American populations, how did it effect European populations?
What are population increases?
Oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the United States (Spain, 1565)
What is St. Augustine
Wrote "Common Sense" to convince colonists to support the Patriot cause
Who was Thomas Paine?
The two causes of the War of 1812
The first democracy in the Americas
What is the Iroquois League / Iroquois Confederation
Differences between Native American tribes and Europeans
What are monotheism and polytheism, patrilineal and matrilineal, land ownership
Brutal, cruel, and inhumane journey of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
The battle that convinced the French to support the colonists
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Treaty ending the War of 1812
What is the Treaty of Ghent?