Sources & Timelines
A source coming from someone who witnessed or participated in the event in question and documented their experience themself (ex: a photograph or journal entry)
What is a Primary Source?
The place on a map that identifies symbols shown
What is a Key?
The event in which colonists in the US went to war with Britain and eventually declared independence
What is the American Revolution?
Spanish and English colonizers thought that (between the Native Americans and the Europeans), this group was superior
What are Europeans?
Language, art, music, clothing, literature, and food are all aspects of this
What is Culture?
An Encyclopaedia Britannica entry discussing Rosa Parks's life, written in 2013 (hint: Rosa Parks passed away in 2005)
What is a Secondary Source?
Uncle Sam, the Statue of Liberty, and Eagles are symbols of this country
What is the United States?
A relatively small revolt against authority and/or rules imposed by government
What is a Rebellion?
Plants, animals, and diseases all were exported and imported between the hemispheres, traveling on ships; a trade initiated by Columbus
What was the Columbian Exchange?
When people work in the skills they are best at to be as efficient as possible
What is Specialization?
The way that events are arranged on a timeline
What is Chronologically?
Political cartoons do not always have words, but they do always have this
What are images/pictures/visuals?
Biased information spread to sway people's views on a government or specific person/event/idea
What is Propaganda?
Nations gain wealth (money, resources) through this system of international trade
What is Mercantilism?
When two groups rely on each other and expect support from one another, espeically economically (ex: trading systems)
What is Economic Interdependence?
A source written in the first person is likely this
What is a Primary Source?
A specific, well-known person shown in a political cartoon with amplified feautures
What is a Caricature?
The resistance method of refusing to purchase something to show that you do not support it
What is Boycotting?
Colonizers came to the Americas hoping to spread this religion
What is Christianity?
This virus was brought the the Americas by Europeans and killed millions of Indigenous peoples- Hint: it was also the only human disease to be eradicated (via vaccination) more recently
What is Smallpox?
The year does not exist on calendars and timelines
What is the Year 0 (Zero)?
The map of Virginia from 1651 by Edward Williams had this ocean drawn (inaccurately) at the north-west corner
What is The Sea of China and the Indies?
A series of wars of the religiously significant city of Jerusalem
What were the Crusades?
This was created by Spanish settlers to control, enslave, and take the land of the Indigenous people in Central and South America in order to gain economic power
What was the encomienda system?
The adapting, evolution, and merging of cultures over time as a result of their contact (Hint- NOT exactly the same as assimilation)
What is Acculturation?