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7th Midterm Review
7th Midterm vocabulary review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anthropologists | believe 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 was of life a groups of people develop and share as members of society |
| Archeologists | study the evidence left by early humans. These pieces of evidence are called artifacts. |
| Living in longhouses | made of wood and bark is the best evidence that the Iroquois adapted to their physical environment |
| Native Americans | living on the Great Plains used the buffalo as food, clothing, shelter and tools. |
| The Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas | all had advanced civilizations before Columbus arrived. |
| The Iroquois Confederacy | One of the major accomplishments was a political union of member nations. Became a representative government and was led by the Grand Council, making decisions that effected all. |
| Colombian 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 of John Rolfe began playing tobacco (cash crop) |
| House of Burgesses | The first representative form of government in North America. This was important in the development of a democracy in the colonies. |
| Mayflower Compact | The first form of self government in the new world. This government was created to benefit the colony. |
| The Dutch | originally established a colony where New York State is now. |
| Peter Stuyvesant | was the governor of the Dutch Colony, New Amsterdam. Surrender this colony to England in 1664 without a fight. |
| Seek Religious Freedom and Escape Persecution | Many 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 Privileges | In order to have these in the 13 colonies, you had to be a man who owned property. |
| Colonial Farmers | chose to settle near oceans or coastal waterways because the transportation of their products would be easier. |
| New France | Most of these settlements were along the St. Lawrence River. Fur trading and fishing were the most profitable ways to make a living. |
| Enslaved people from Africa | were used as agricultural workers in the southern colonies |
| Benjamin Franklin's Plan of Union | after the failure of his plan, this individual drew a political cartoon stressing the importance of the colonies working together. |
| French and Indian War | as a result of this war, England decided to make the American colonists help pay war debts. |
| Major Geographic Features | U.S. from west to east. Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, Mississippi River, Appalachian Mountains. |
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