What do we call a first hand account?
Primary source
What was the name for goods traded from the
colonies to Britain as part of the triangular trade?
Raw materials
What was traded from the colonies to Africa as part of
the triangular trade?
Guns, gunpowder, rum, cloth, tools
Who founded Rhode Island for religious freedom?
Roger Williams
Is a primary or secondary source more reliable?
primary
What did Britain gain after the Treaty of Paris (1763) at the end of the French and
Indian War?They gained France’s land in North America
including Canada.
What was the colonists reaction to the Townshend
Acts?
They boycotted, harassed tax officials, made their
own goods such as liberty tea
Physical Regions Map
Physical Regions Map
A – Pacific Coast RegionB - Rocky Mountain Region
C- Interior PlainsD – Appalachian Mountain Region
E – Coastal Plains Region
What was Benjamin Franklin’s plan to make a
government for the 13 colonies during the French
and Indian War called?Albany Plan of Union
Is a journal a primary or secondary source?
primary
What was the name for goods traded from Britain to the colonies as part of the
triangular trade?Manufactured goods
Name 3 ways colonists protested against British
actions.
Petitions (Olive Branch Petition, riots, boycotts,
Sons of Liberty, hangings in effigy, tarring and
feathering)
What act closed the port of Boston, limited town
meetings to 1 a year in Massachusetts and passed a
new Quartering Act?
Intolerable Acts (1774)
Is a textbook a primary or secondary source?
secondary
What was the phrase colonists said to protest the fact that no colonists were a
member of Parliament?“No taxation without
representation!”
What do we call the average weather over a period of 20 -30 years for a given location?
climate
What do we call what it looks like outside right now? It
could be snowing or sunny.
weather
What do we call the people who find information for
historians?
Social scientists
What are the main clues archaeologists study?
artifacts
What colony was founded as a home for debtors?
Georgia
How did the first people get to the Americas?
Across a land bridge during the last ice age
What 2 areas did the land bridge connect during the
last ice age?
Siberia (Asia) to Alaska
What do we call areas that look the same?
Physical regions
What Son of Liberty in Boston warned the
minutemen that the British were coming to Lexington
and Concord?Paul Revere
What was the name for the series of acts passed in the 1660’s by England to control
colonial trade?Navigation Acts
What did the Iroquois call themselves?
Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse)
British soldiers were sent to protect the frontier after the
Proclamation of 1763. Where did they stay?
In coastal cities
What do we call the total way of life of a group of people?
culture
Give one example of how the Iroquois used their
environment.•Longhouses from the
forests•Animals from the forests•Water for transportation•Fertile soil for farming
What was the name given the 5 Iroquois tribes formed
by Hiawatha?
Iroquois Confederacy
What is a sachem
Iroquois name for chief
What were a group of related Iroquois tribes called?
clan
What was the main job of Iroquois women?
•Selected Iroquois chiefs•In charge of Iroquois
villages
How did the Iroquois tell time?
Nature and the seasons
What was the name for the waterway through or around
North America that many early explorers were looking
for? (it didn’t exist)
Northwest Passage
What colony did the Pilgrims settle for religious freedom?
Massachusetts
Who was the persuasive speaker from Virginia during
the time period before the Revolutionary War?
Patrick Henry
What European country controlled Florida, Mexico,
and Central America?
Spain
What European country controlled Canada and the St. Lawrence River Valley?
France
What European country originally controlled New
York state?
The Netherlands (the Dutch)
What was the biggest area of conflict between white
settlers and Native Americans?
land
A - Missouri RiverB - Mississippi River
C - Ohio RiverD - St. Lawrence RiverE - Rio Grande River
What was the exchange of goods and ideas between the
New World and Old World called?
Columbian Exchange
What was the biggest negative of the Columbian
Exchange?
Diseases which killed many Native Americans.
What were laws called which were designed to control the
behavior of slaves?
Slave codes
What religious group came to the Massachusetts Bay
Colony in 1620 searching for religious freedom?
Pilgrims
What religious group controlled the church and
government of Massachusetts Bay early in
the colony’s history?
Puritans
What was the religious group in Pennsylvania called that
believed that all people were equal in God’s eyes?
Quakers
What was the first permanent English colony in North
America called?
Jamestown (1607)
What was the name for the slave trip from Africa to the
colonies?
Middle passage
What term describes Britain’s practice of trying to get rich by increasing its gold supply and trade at the expense of
the colonies?
mercantilism
What was the document called that was signed by the Pilgrim’s
in 1620 guaranteeing representative government for Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Mayflower Compact
What term described the colonial protest method
where colonists refused to buy British goods?
boycott
What is it called when people are looked down upon
because they belong to a different race?
racism
What is another name for a lawmaking body or
assembly?
legislature
New England farmers grew just enough to feed their
family. What is the name for this type of farming?
subsistence
What were people called who agreed to work 4-7 years in exchange for their trip to the
colonies being paid for?Indentured servants
What two colonial regions grew cash crops?
Middle and Southern
What was the poor area next to the Appalachian Mountains called?
backcountry
• New England Colonies
• Middle Colonies
• Southern Colonies
What was it called when a child learned a craft from a
master craftsman?
apprentice
What colonial region grew rice, indigo and tobacco?
Southern
What was traded from Africa to the West Indies in the
triangular trade?
slaves
What colonial region grew wheat, barley and rye?
Middle Colonies
What battle was famous for the “Shot heard ‘round the
world.”
Lexington and Concord
What colonial region was known as the breadbasket
colonies?
Middle
What were the 3 reasons for Spanish exploration and
settlement in the New World?
God, gold, and glory
What colonial region had many small villages and
small farms?
New England
What colonial region was all spread out with few cities
and very large farms?
Southern
What colonial region contained the city of Boston?
New England
What colonial region contained the city of Charles
Town?
Southern
What colonial region contained the cities of New
York and Philadelphia?
Middle
What colonial region was home to plantations?
Southern
What term means the study of the land, plants and animals of a region?
geography
What was the area called in the Southern Colonies where
the rich ruling class lived?
Tidewater
What was the area in the Southern Colonies next to the Atlantic Ocean called?
tidewater
What colonial region was educated in public schools?
New England
Who was the founder of Georgia?
James Oglethorpe
Who did most of the farm work on Southern
plantations?
Enslaved Africans
What was the trade route between the colonies, Africa and the West Indies called?
Triangular trade
What act made colonists house and feed British
soldiers?
Quartering Act (1767, 1774)
What act said that colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
What was traded from the West Indies to the colonies in
the triangular trade?
Sugar, rum, molasses, slaves
Who was banished from Massachusetts for
disagreeing with the Puritan leaders of the colony?
Anne Hutchinson
What act lowered the price of tea but cut merchants out of
the tea trade?
Tea Act (1773)
What term means a willingness to allow others to
practice their beliefs?
toleration
What act taxed paper documents such as wills,
diplomas and playing cards?
Stamp Act (1765)
Who founded Connecticut?
Thomas Hooker
Where did the French and Indian War begin?
Ohio River Valley
What act punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party?
Intolerable Acts (1774)
What is the name of crops grown to sell for a profit?
Cash crops
What was the most frequently used colonial
protest?
boycotts
What do we call a second hand account?
Secondary source
Who was the Massachusetts leader who defended the British soldiers after the
Boston Massacre?John Adams
Is an autobiography a primary or secondary
source?
primary
Who was the fiery leader of the Sons of Liberty in
Boston?
Sam Adams
What was the name of the colonial troops at the battle of
Lexington and Concord?
minutemen
What was the group of men called who organized against
the British before the American Revolution?
Sons of Liberty
What group of Native Americans lived in New York before the Iroquois? They
were enemies of the Iroquois.
Algonquins
A - Appalachian MountainsB - Sierra Nevada
C- Rocky MountainsD - Cascades
Is an encyclopedia a primary or secondary source?
secondary
What colonial region had more cities and large farms?
Middle
What was the first battle of the Revolutionary War?
Lexington and Concord
Who was the King of England during the period of
time before the American Revolution?
King George III
Is a biography a primary or secondary source?
secondary
What do we call goods that are brought into a country?
imports
What colonial region was educated in private schools?
Middle
What was the group of women called who organized against the British before the
American Revolution?Daughters of Liberty
Who re-discovered the Americas in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
What did the Iroquois live in?
longhouses
What do we call goods traded out of a country?
exports
Who was the founder of Pennsylvania?
William Penn
Is a diary a primary or secondary source?
primary
What were the 5 original Iroquois tribes?
Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk – (SCOOM)
What colonial region was educated by tutors?
Southern
What colonial region grew corn, beans and squash?
New England
Is a home video a primary or secondary source?
primary
A - Pacific OceanB - Gulf of MexicoC - Atlantic OceanD – Great Lakes D