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SS Quiz 1
First 25 Terms (23)
Term | Definition |
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Climate | The average weather of a place over a 20 to 30 year period |
Culture | The total way of life of a particular people |
Archaeologist | A scientist who studies the physical evidence left by an early people |
Development of Native American Cultures | There were 10 major Native American cultural groups who developed in North America because each group had to survive in 1 of the 10 different environments they found themselves in - different foods available, clothing, shelter, and ways of living |
Iroquois | The five great Native American nations who united in 1570 in what is now NY |
Aztecs, Incas & Mayas | In Central and South America, there developed 3 great Native American civilizations had very large populations, great cities, advanced cultures, well-organized governments, specialized skills & jobs |
Dates MOST Spanish Colonies established | 1500-1550 |
Reasons Aztecs & Incas were defeated by only a handful of Spaniards | had less sophisticated weapons than the Spaniards-scared of Spaniards on horses which the Indians never had seen before-thousands killed or severely weakened by European diseases such as measles and smallpox |
Colony | A settlement in a new are started with people who permanently left their homeland. |
Dates most British Colonies established | from 1609 to 1684 |
Charter | A legal document which was granted by the king giving permission to start a new colony- a charter could be granted to a company or sometimes to a person |
Bread Basket Colonies | A nickname given the Middle Colonies because they grew grains such as wheat that were exported to help feed the people of the New England & Southern Colonies |
Toleration | A willingness to let others practice their own beliefs which are different than your beliefs without interference from you or others |
Apprentice | A person who often had to spend up to seven years learning a craft from a master craftsman |
Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in the New World (in 1609) and which was started with a charter granted by the King to the Virginia Company |
William Penn | He started the colony of Pennsylvania with a charter granted him by the king because the king owed Penn's father money. Penn made Pennsylvania a safe haven for Quakers who faced persecution in Britain |
Roger Williams | He started the colony of Rhode Island which became the first colony granting religious freedom in the New World |
James Oglethorpe | He started the colony of Georgia as a buffer between the 13 English Colonies & Spanish Florida with the convicts (debtors) from British prisons. |
Lord Baltimore | He started the colony of Maryland as a safe haven for Roman Catholics |
Economy of the Southern Colonies | Based on plantations growing cash crops such as tobacco, rice, and indigo using slave labor |
Triangle Trade Routes | A series of trade routes developed by New England merchants which made New England wealthy |
Middle Passage | The horrible trip between Africa and the West Indies for captured blacks in the holds of slave ships where many died of mistreatment |
Mayflower Compact | 1st agreement for self-government in the English Colonies, signed by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620, & which established a government based upon majority rule |