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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what do archaeologists do? | study artifacts |
| what is culture? | a way of life |
| how do early men get to america? | crossed a land bridge connection asia to alaska |
| what is one of the things the iroquois do? | formed a confederation led by the grand council |
| whats another thing the iroquois do? | they adapted to their environment by using wood and bark for their longhouses |
| whats one more thing the iroquois do? | there villages protected them from enemies because they lived in groups |
| why is there different Native American cultures? | there is different environments |
| what did great plains indians do? | depended on buffalo for food, shelter, clothing and tools |
| what did the Aztecs/ Incas, and Mayans have? | they had advanced civilizations/ located in Central America |
| what are the effects on America? | 1) europeans start new colonies 2) natives die from white mans diseases 3) new foods brought over |
| what are the results of the columbian exchange? | 1) new food 2) new colonies 3) new diseases 4) africans brought as slaves |
| what was the economics for the 13 colonies? | making goods and selling them/ idea of making money |
| what was the house of burgesses? | it was important because it was a representative government. the first representative form of government in north america this was important in the development a democracy in the colonies |
| what was the reason for Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island? | for religious freedom |
| what was the Mayflower compact purpose? and what is it? | to create a government and the first form of self government in the new world. this government was created to benefit the colony |
| what is New York? | is controlled by Peter Stuyvesant/ owned by the Dutch first |
| what was the cash crop in Jamestown? | tobacco |
| the increase need for farm workers equal? | increase number of slaves from africa |
| what was the voting rights? | only men who owned property/ no women or african americans |
| what colony was catholic? | Maryland |
| where was New France and what did it do? | along the ST.Lawrence River/ made a living by fishing and fur trade |
| what colony was the Quakers? | Pennsylvania |
| what was the Albany Plan of Union? | cartoon/ colonies need to unite together |
| why did farmers settle near waterways? | it was easier to transport their goods |
| what were the results of the French and Indian war? | england got land from france/ france lost its land claims and power in north america/england wanted the colonists to pay for the war |
| what are anthropologists? | they believed that the earliest human migration to the americas was people from asia crossing] the land bridge to alaska in order to hunt migrating animals |
| environmental conditions | a variety existed in north america. that is why many different native american cultures developed |
| culture | the entire way of life a group of people develop and share as members of a society |
| archaeologists | study the evidence left by early humans. these pieces are called artifacts |
| living in longhouses were what? | made of wood and bark is the best evidence that the iroquois adapted to their physical environment |
| Native Americans | lived on the great plains used the buffalo as food, clothing, shelter, and tools |
| the Aztecs , Incas, and Mayas | all had advanced civilzations before columbus arrived, the maya and aztec empires were located in central america |
| the iroquois confederacy | establishment of a political union of member nations,this reflected a democratic idea known as a representative government. the iroquois confederation was led by the grand council. the grand council made decisions that affected the confederation as one |
| columbian exchange | after columbus arrived in the west indies, an exchange of goods and ideas began. the columbian exchange involved many items, people, plants, animals, and even diseases |
| jamestown | survived in part because john rolfe began planting tobacco ( a cash crop) |
| the dutch | originally established a colony where new york state is now |
| peter stuyvesant | was the governor of the dutch colony new amsterdam . stuyvesant surrounded the colony to england in 1664 without a fight |
| to seek religious freedom and escape persecution | many of the early settlers immigrated to Maryland, Massachusetts, plymouth Pennsylvania and Rhode Island |
| pennsylvania | founded by William Penn as a place for Quakers to worship freely |
| economics | the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services |
| voting privilages | in order to have voting privileges in the 13 colonies, you had to be a man who owned property |
| colonial farmers | choose to settle near oceans or coastal waterways because the transportation of their products would be easier |
| New France | most of the settlements in new france were located along the St.Lawrence river. fur trading and fishing were the most profitable ways of making a living |
| enslaved people from africa | were used as agricultural workers in the southern colonies |
| Benjamin Franklin's Plan of Union | after this failure, he drew a political cartoon to stress the importance of the colonies having to work together |
| French and Indian war | as a result of the French and Indian war, england decided to make the american colonists help pay war debts. |
| major geographic features | of the united states from the west to the east are the Rocky Mountains, great plains, mississippi river, and appalachian mountains |
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