Bertschi North America
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Who were the Queen Charlotte islands named after? | After King George III's wife, Charlotte |
| The Haida don't call them the Queen Charlotte islands. They call their islands | Islands of the People; Islands coming out of concealment |
| How are the Haida Chiefs chosen? | They choose them through a Matrilineal system |
| What is the Matrilineal system? | A social system in which family inheritance rights are traced through the mother's side of the family |
| What do Totem Poles reveal about the Haida? | Totem polses tell family stories/histories |
| What are Button Blankets? | They are used in ceremonies; they represent the family crest or clan |
| How is it determined that you are part of either the Eagle Tribe or Raven Tribe? | It is determined by whether your mother is an Eagle or Raven? (Matrilineal) |
| The first people were created by what trickster animal? | The Raven |
| The Raven is: | a trickster character found in Haida folk tales. |
| What is a Potlatch Pole ring? | It is a ring carved into a pole that is reward for hosting a Potlatch Ceremony where your family gave all of its material wealth to friends and extended family. |
| What is an Inuksuit or Inuksuk? | It is a "mound" of rocks used to locate migrating animals; or it is used as a signpost for traveling humans (Canadian) |
| Who was Eric the Red? | A Viking who was annished from Iceland for Murder; he founded Greenland. |
| Who was Leif Ericson? | He was the son of Eric the Red; he discovered Vinland; present day Canada (Newfoundland) |
| What is Lanse aux Meadows? | It is the only known landing or short settlement of the Vikings in North America |
| Who was John Cabot? | He was an Italian navigator; sailed for the British; finds South East coast of Canada (1497) |
| Who was Jacques Cartier? | He found the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1534) |
| Who was Samuel de Champlain? | He founded Quebec City in 1608 |
| What was the Treaty of Paris? | Written in 1763 at the end of the French and Indian War; the British got New France or Canada as war bounty. |
| Who did the French and Indians fight in the French and Indian War? | The British and Indians; both had Indian allies or friends |
| What did the Quebec Act of 1774 allow the French Canadians? | It allowed French Canadians to continue pracitcing Catholicism? |
| What does Canada mean? | It is an Algonquin word for "group of huts" |
| What did the Constitution Act of 1791 do? | It divided Canada into two parts, Upper and Lower Canada |
| Where is Upper Canada? | Ontario |
| Where is Lower Canada? | Quebec |
| What did the Act of Union do? | It united Lower and Upper Canada |
| What did the British North America Act do in 1867? | It created the Dominion of Canada |
| Who led the Metis Rebelion? | Louis Riel |
| Who is a Metis? | A person of mixed heritage (French/Amerindian) |
| Who is a Mestizo? | Spanish for Mixed heritage (Spanish/Amerindian) |
| Who is Mulatto? | person of mixed African and European heritage |
| What is another name for the Canadian Pacific Railway? | Intercontinental Railroad |
| What did the Statute of Westminster provide for Canad? | Independence of Canada from Britain; no revolution; part of the British Commonwealth |
| When did the Canadians get their Bill of Rights? | 1980's |
| Compared to other countries, the land mass of Canada makes it . . . | the second largest country in the world |
| How many Provinces does Canada have ? | 10 |
| How many territories does Canada have? | 3 |
| Which Canadian province is the Newest Province? | Newfoundland and Labrador; one Province |
| Whic Territory is the newest territory in Canada? | Nunavut |
| What are the two official languages of Canada? | French and English |
| Who were the First Peoples/Nations in Canada? | Amerindians and the Inuit |
| Who are designated the Second People in Canada? | French |
| Who are designated the Third People? | British |
| What does Quebec Secession mean? | Quebec wanted to become a Sovereign Nation |
| Where is Vinland? Who named it that? | North America; named by Leif Ericson |
| What was New England's main religion? (American Coloniest) | Protestant Christianity |
| What was New France's main religion? | Roman Catholic Christianity |
| Who invented the Unitformity system? | Eli Whitney |
| Who invented the Flying Shuttle? | John Kay |
| Who is considered the Father of the Industrial Revolution? | Sir Richard Arkwright |
| Who invented the Spinning Jenny? | James Hargreaves |
| What are the four parts of the Uniformity System? | Interchangeable Parts; Mass Production; Assembly Line; Division of labor |
| These inventions: the Flying Shuttle, Spinning Jenny and the Waterframe spelled the "death" of the: | Cottage Industry |
| The cottage industry had the following characteristics: | work done in a cottage; work was decentralized in the country (rural); items were made by hand; the system was inefficient |
| The factory system had the following characteristics: | work don in a factory; work was centralized in an urban (city) setting; the system was powered by water; the system worked like clockwork. |
| The Sioux are also known as the . . . Sioux means friend while Lakota means: | Lakota Friend |
| Desperate Amerindians believed that the Ghost Dance | would bring back their way of life, culture. |
| Those who participated in the Ghost Dance wore | a special shirt that they believed was impenetrable by bullets. |
| One massacre of Amerindians in the US was at | Wounded Knee. |
| In order to fight social injustice, Amerindians in the US | created the AIM or the American Indian Movement. |
| After Congress passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 | The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, Choctow wer forced from their land in the South Eastern region of the USA. |
| The Removal Act led to | The Trail of Tears. |
| Segregation means | separation. |
| Segregation during the Civil Rights Movement in the USA meant | separation of blacks and whites. |
| Segregation in the US was sometimes called | Jim Crow. |
| The book The Help was about | black maids working for whites in Jackson, Mississippi. |
| In The Help, when the black maids told their stories | they gained a voice in the Civil Rights Movement. |
| Some laws during segregation were: | separation at swimming pools, water fountains, on busses, in courtrooms, in schools, at lunch counters |
| In order to overthrow the Jim Crow laws, black children | marched and went to jail for justice. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr., practiced | Active Non-Violence in order to overthrow segregation laws. |
| Active Non-Violence examples are . . . | marches, sit-ins, going to jail, petitions |
| Segregation in the US is like . . . | Apartheid in South Africa. |
| Who were the Olmec? | an Amerindian group in Mexico |
| Another name for the Olmec was . . . | the Rubber People because they learned how to tap the rubber trees for rubber |
| One possible migration theory about the Olmec | they traveled across the ocean in boats from the continent of Africa |
| The Toltec had a story about a legendary king named | Quetzalcoatl |
| Quetzalcoatl means . . . | Feathered Serpant |
| Quetzal birds provided | feathers for the "kings" headress and clothes |
| When the Spaniards came to Mexico the destroyed the Aztec books called: | Codices |
| The Codices were written in a | pictographic language. |
| Montezuma was | the leader of the Aztec |
| Hernando Cortez | was the conquistador from Spain who conquered the Aztec |
| The Aztec possibly thought that Cortez | was the returning Quetzalcoatl of Toltec legend |
| The Maya | were the greatest ancient American Civilization. |
| The Maya invented a calendar that | had two parts. An everyday calendar with 365 days and a sacred calendar with 260 days. |
| MesoAmerica means: | Central America or "between the Americas" or Middle America |
| Don Miguel Hidalgo | was the Father of Independence in Mexico |
| Benito Juarez | was sometimes called the Abe Lincoln of Mexico because he helped Amerindians and the poor gain political and civil rights. |
| Santa Anna is best known in the US | for fighting at the Alamo. |
| Diego Rivera | famous muralist who painted the history of Mexico on the walls of the National Palace. |
| Frida Kahlo | Married to Diego RIvera. She was a famous Mexican painter. She was injured in a car accident and painted many famous self-portraits from her bed. |
| Bon Jour is french for | Good Day or Good Morning! |
| Buenos Dias is Spanish for | Good Day or Good Morning! |
| NAFTA stands for | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| NAFTA is an economic agreement between | Canada, Mexico and the US |
| NAFTA removes tarrifs | between North American countries. |
| The North American countries are: | Mexico, the USA, and Canada |
| Sometimes NAFTA has been blamed for | sweatshops in Mexico. |
| A tariff is similar to | a tax. |
| Canada has provinces, but Mexico has | states. |
| What religion was brought to Mexico by the Spanish Conquistadors and Spanish priests? | Christianity: Roman Catholicism |
| What system replaced the Cottage Industry? | The Factory System |
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