Native Americans
EOC Questions
European Colonies in N. America
13 United Colonies
1920's and Random Facts
100
What best highlights the Anasazi culture in the Southwest?
Their irrigation networks and large adobe buildings.
100
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Who is a Robber Barron turned Philanthropist.
100
What was technically the very first colony in America that is not included in the original 13 colonies?
What is Florida
Founded by Spain years before Jamestown
100
What was the first official battle of the American Revolution and where was it located?
What is Bunker hill and Breed's Hill
100
What were the titles of rebellious women in the 1920's who were known to cut their hair into bobs, smoked, drank, and wore close fitted dresses that were raised above the knee?
What is a flapper
200
What other name were the Mound Builders known for?
what is the Mississippians
200
What is it called when you take a minority group in a society and try to make them like the majority.
What is Assimilation?
200
What was the name of the failed English Colony and what happened to it?
What is Roanoke, they disappeared.
200
Women in the revolutionary war played an important roll. What was that roll and what movement or thought did it spark in colonial women?
What are spies, and boycotts. The women were in charge of boycotting British goods. George Washington had a large network of spies.
It made them think that they also deserved the right to an education and equality.
200
Who is Miss Whetsell's favorite "playboy" in history? Why is he important to history?
Who is Henry VIII
300
Many tribes followed this kind of lineage system, what is it?
What is matrilineal.
300
Who were the six groups that were oppressed during the gilded age?
Who were the Irish Immigrants, Chinese Immigrants, Women, Children, African American, Farmers
300
Name two reasons that Jamestown almost failed.
What is Dysentery and Malaria
300
Many colonies were names for their monarchal leaders. Name two English monarchs and the towns that were names after them.
What is Jamestown named after James I and Louisiana named after King Louis XIV
300
Alcohol was a popular subject of debate in the 1920's enough that a whole amendment, the 18th amendment. What was this called?
What is Prohibition
Or what is the Temperance Movement
400
What was the name of the tribes in the Northeastern part of North America?
Who are the Iroquois
400
What was the name of the corrupt politician in New York associated with Tammany Hall?
Who is William "Boss" Tweed
400
What effect did the protestant reformation have on Europe that impacted the Colonies?
What is create mass confusion and hatred toward a religious group or groups, often resulting in physical altercations and oppression. Thus, leading people to seek a home elsewhere.
400
The English colonies were 13 distinct colonies that were separated into four regions. What were those regions?
What are the New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, Chesapeake Colonies, and Southern Colonies.
400
What was the Scopes Monkey Trial about?
What is a trial against John Scopes who was teaching the theory of Evolution and not the Creationist theory of human creation.
500
What was the significant lifestyle did the tribe in the Great Plains have that made it difficult for them when Westward expansion happened in the Gilded Age?
What is hunters and not farmers
500
What is this political cartoon about
What is the Chinese Exclusion Acts
500
What was the major difference between the French and Dutch relationships with the Native Americans.
What is the French would intermarry and join the tribe, while the Dutch refused to intermarry and only wanted a business relationship.
500
What were the major themes of the Declaration of Independence?
What is Preamble, New Theory of Government, Reasons for separation: Three groups of 27 specific grievances.
Extra 200 points if you can list two of the reasons listed.
500
What were some economic concerns or problems of the 1920's?
What is Americans were encouraged more and more to purchase goods on credit
Or what is a drop in crop prices and low wage incomes coupled with high spending in the form of credit.