Unit 4 Test Prep Flashcards
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Adapt
Adjusting to a new environment or condition
Nomad
Person who moves around from place to place.
Teepee
Portable tent made of skin, cloth or canvas and framed poles
Pit House
Large, circular in-ground house.
Colombian Exchange
Introduction of new plants, animals, and diseases from the Americas and Europe.
American Revolutionary War
War between the colonies and Great Britain
Did the colonists have a say or power in British Parliament?
No.
The Declaration of Independence talks about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” what kids of rights are those?
Natural or human rights
Location of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn between the US and Native Americans?
Montana
Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that later became a famous song. What song?
The Star Spangled Banner
Louisiana Purchase
Agreement between the US and France to transfer millions of miles of French land West of the Mississippi River to the US.
Manifest destiny
Belief by some that the US was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Reconstruction
The process of rebuilding something that is broke. Or in disrepair
Civil War
The United States war in which Northern states and Southern states fought against one another.
Invention
Creating something new for the first time
Immigration
Moving to a new country with the intent to stay.
Collaboration
Working together
Industrialization
Process where people create easier and cheaper ways to make things.
Segregation
The act of keeping people in separate groups, with separate rules, based on their race.
Discrimination
Treating people differently.
Persecution
Persistent, hostile, mean treatment.
Archeologists
Person who studies human history and prehistory through excavation of sites and the analysis of the artifacts.
Artifacts
Object made by a human that is of historical interest.
Rural
Country or farm land
