Key Concepts

Question 1

The first people in America came across the _________ down through _________ or by boat across the ___________________.

Answer 1

Bering Sea, Alaska, Atlantic Ocean

Question 2

Early civilization developed when?

Answer 2

300 B.C to 1400 A.D

Question 3

Many Native American Cultures covered North America by what time?

Answer 3

1500’s

Question 4

Many Africans ended up in North America as what?

Answer 4

Slaves

Question 5

The crusades spurred trade between which two continents?

Answer 5

Europe and Asia

Question 6

What new things sprung up in Europe?

Answer 6

Ideas, Reading, Education

Question 7

Columbus sailed for ________, searched for a shorter ___________________ to _______- and discovered _________ in _______.

Answer 7

Spain, Trade Route, Asia, America, 1492

Question 8

________ established a large empire in the Americas that stretched from ____________________ to ________________ and north into the southern portions of the present day _________.

Answer 8

Spain, South America, Mexico, United States

Question 9

___________ and his soldiers defeated the __________ in _____.

Answer 9

Cortez, Aztecs, 1521

Question 10

Spain sent who to convert the Native americans to Christianity?

Answer 10

Missionaries

Question 11

The spanish established what in the colonies?

Answer 11

Large Plantations

Question 12

Which explorers came to america to claim land for their countries?

Answer 12

Hudson ( dutch ) , Cabot (England) , Cartier (France)

Question 12

The colonists also grew what, with whose help.

Answer 12

Sugar, Enslaved Native Americans

Question 12

The Columbian Exchange brought what to Europe?

Answer 12

Corn, potatoes, cacao, sugar, tobacco

Question 12

England defeated who in 1588?

Answer 12

Spanish Armada

Question 13

What did america gain from the columbian exchange?

Answer 13

Grains, livestock, and disease

Question 14

In order to supply workers for plantations, what began?

Answer 14

A slave trade

Question 15

Jamestown was founded in what year?

Answer 15

1607

Question 16

House Of Burgesses

Answer 16

The first representative assembly in the colonies.

Question 17

Why did the pilgrims and puritans come to America?

Answer 17

religious freedom

Question 18

Did the colonists and Native americans get along?

Answer 18

sometimes??????

Question 19

The Middle and southern colonies grew what?

Answer 19

Indigo, Tobacco, and Rice

Question 20

What land was part of the backcountry?

Answer 20

Appalachian Mountains, far western portions of the colonies.

Question 21

What agricultural things were important to the New England Colonies?

Answer 21

Small Farms, lumber, fishing.

Question 22

Triangular trade was between which three places?

Answer 22

New England, Africa, West Indies.

Question 23

The middle colonies were noted for what?

Answer 23

cash crops, and animal raising

Question 24

Cities began to grow where?

Answer 24

Middle Colonies

Question 25

Where did slavery exist?

Answer 25

Middle and New England Colonies, But mainly in the southern colonies.

Question 26

The Backcountry settlers were self sufficient how?

Answer 26

They farmed, fished, hunted, and made the items they needed, including houses and furniture.

Question 27

Describe the life of a slave.

Answer 27

Hard with long hours and cruel whippings form the overseers.

Question 28

Large numbers of Scott Irish moved where?

Answer 28

The Backcountry.

Question 29

Was the contact between the settlers and Native Americans peaceful?

Answer 29

Most of the time they quarreled, but sometimes they were friends.

Question 30

In the colonies only who could vote?

Answer 30

MEN (They sexist)

Question 31

The colonists taught their children how to do what.

Answer 31

Read (even if they didn’t go to school)

Question 32

What things became popular?

Answer 32

Newspapers, and Books.

Question 33

The Great Awakening encouraged what?

Answer 33

It encouraged equality and the right to challenge authority.

Question 34

The Enlightenment emphasized what?

Answer 34

Reason and science as a path to knowledge.

Question 35

John Peter Zenger’s trial upheld the right to do what?

Answer 35

To have free speech as long as what you said was true.

Question 36

The _______ and ________ fought England for control of what?

Answer 36

French, Indian The western lands

Question 37

What battle was the turning point in the war?

Answer 37

The battle of Quebec.

Question 38

The treaty of Paris gave what land to England?

Answer 38

All land east of the Mississippi River.