MIDTERM REVIEW

Culture

Artifact

Native American migration

Why was agriculture important?

•Way of life of a group•Includes customs, beliefs, clothing, …

manmade object

•First Americans came from Asia•They crossed a land bridge

•People could settle down•Allowed people to do other things

Iroquois Confederacy

Columbian Exchange

Reasons for exploration

Las Casas

•First representative government•Women were powerful

•New foods for Europe (corn, potatoes)•Wheat, tomatoes, diseases for Americas

•“Gold, God, and Glory”•Profit, religion, adventure

“Protector of the Indians”

Magellan

Hudson

John Smith

Great Migration

his crew was first to sail around the world

•Worked for Holland•Was looking for Northwest Passage

•Leader of Jamestown•“Work or starve” policy

The flood of Pilgrims that came for religious freedom

Middle Passage

Proclamation of 1763

Stamp Act

Declaration of Independence

The part of triangular trade that was used for shipping slaves to the New World

Prevented colonists from crossing the Appalachian Mountains

taxed all printed material

• Thomas Jefferson was main author.• July 4th, 1776

Boston Massacre

Lexington & Concord

T. Paine

Battle of Saratoga

•British soldiers killed 5 colonists•Colonists used it as propaganda

•“shot heard ‘round the world”•First battle of the Revolution

•Common Sense•American Crisis (“sunshine patriot”)

•Turning point in Revolution•Convinced France to become our ally

republic

3/5’s Compromise

Checks and Balances

veto

a government where citizens elect representatives

some slaves would count for representation

keeps any branch from becoming too powerful

president rejects a bill