Indigenous People
This land bridge allowed early peoples to migrate from Asia to the Americas.
What is Beringia?
This exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases dramatically reshaped the world after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Under this economic system, colonies existed only to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Colonists protested the Stamp Act because they lacked this in Parliament.
What is representation?
The Constitution divides power into three branches for this reason.
What is to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful?
States refused to approve the Constitution until this was added.
What is the Bill of Rights?
These early peoples adapted when large Ice Age animals went extinct by doing this for food.
What is hunting smaller animals, fishing, farming, and gathering plants?
This was the most deadly impact of European contact on Indigenous peoples.
What are European diseases?
Most colonists worked in these two types of jobs.
What are farming and skilled trades?
These two violent events in Boston increased tensions between the colonies and Britain.
What are the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party?
This system ensures each branch of government can limit the powers of the others.
What is checks and balances?
This amendment protects freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
These homes carved into cliffs in the Southwest show Indigenous people’s ability to adapt for protection and temperature control.
What are cliff dwellings?
Europeans explored the Americas primarily to gain these two things.
What are wealth and new trade routes?
These meetings in New England allowed colonists to debate and vote on community issues.
What are town meetings?
This key advantage helped the Continental Army despite having fewer troops and supplies.
What is knowledge of the land and strong motivation?
This branch can declare laws unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from these.
What are unreasonable searches and seizures?
This explains why Indigenous cultures were very different across North America.
What is adapting to different environments?
Columbus wrote that Indigenous people “would make fine servants,” revealing this European attitude.
What is that Europeans viewed Indigenous people as inferior and controllable?
These meetings in New England allowed colonists to debate and vote on community issues.
What are town meetings?
The Declaration of Independence says people are born with these rights.
What are natural rights?
Congress can override this presidential action with a two-thirds vote in both houses.
What is a veto?
Miranda v. Arizona strengthened this 5th Amendment right.
What is the right to remain silent?
According to an Ojibwe oral tradition, “We take only what we need,” showing this belief about land and resources.
What is that all things are connected and resources must be used respectfully / sustainably?
A European explorer calls the Americas “unclaimed land waiting to be used.” What does this show about European attitudes?
What is they believed land belonged only to European nations that claimed it?
This excerpt—“At our town meeting… we decided how much each family must contribute…”—shows this key democratic principle.
What is community self-government / people making decisions directly?
In Paul Revere’s engraving, British soldiers appear to fire in formation while colonists appear defenseless, making this type of political statement.
What is propaganda / exaggeration to increase anti-British sentiment?
The phrase “We the People” in the Preamble shows this fundamental principle of government.
What is popular sovereignty / the idea that government power comes from the people?
Both the First Amendment’s speech protection and the Fourth Amendment’s search protection limit government power in this fundamental way.
What is by protecting individual rights against government abuse / intrusion?