Doing History
These types of sources include things like textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
What are Secondary Sources?
Europeans began exploring in the 1400s for these 3 reasons.
What are gold, spices, and trade routes that avoided the Muslim Kingdoms?
Cotton, indigo, tobacco, and sugar are examples of this.
What is a raw material?
The 13 colonies were divided into these 3 sections.
What are New England, Middle, and Southern?
This new law placed a tax on things like newspapers, pamphlets, and cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
An example of this type of source includes a letter written by a Civil War soldier.
What is a Primary Source?
This was the name for the exchange of goods, food, culture, language, and diseases between the Old World (EUROPE) and the New World (AMERICAS).
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Cloth, guns, and copper are examples of this.
What is a manufactured good?
The hot and humid climate in this region made it the perfect place to grow cash crops on vast plantations.
What is the Southern region?
This famous pamphlet written by Thomas Paine helped convince colonists that total independence from Britain was necessary.
What was Common Sense?
This type of source is created at the time of an event.
What is a Primary Source?
This animal brought to the Americas from Europe greatly changed the way Native Americans hunted.
What was the horse?
The slave trade involved the trading of these three things.
These poor, white Europeans signed contracts to come to the colonies in order to find work.
Who are indentured servants?
This historical event is often cited as a main cause of the American Revolution because it escalated tensions by killing 5 colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This type of source is typically created by someone who was NOT at an event when it happened.
What is a Secondary Source?
These two staple crops were brought to Europe and led to a major population increase.
What are the corn and potato?
This is another name for the part of the journey where enslaved Africans were taken by force to the Americas.
What is the middle passage?
The control over this area led to the French and Indian War in 1754.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This document signed on July 4th, 1776 by the 1st Continental Congress declared that the colonists wanted independence from the British government.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Secondary sources can become primary sources when this happens.
What is time passing?
The exchange of this deadly thing led to the destruction of 95% of the native populations in the Americas.
What are diseases?
This was the cash crop that prompted Portugal to find and use slave labor in their colony of Brazil.
What is sugar?
The increase of this led to increased tensions between the British and the colonists after the French and Indian War.
What are taxes?
This new country was established after the Patriots beat the British in the final battle at Yorktown.
What is the United States of America?