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Geography |
The study of people, their enviornments, and their resources |
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Archaeology |
The study of evidence left by early peoples |
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Culture |
The way of life that a people has developed |
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Artifacts |
Objects made by humans a long time ago |
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How did the first americans arrive? |
By bridge |
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Where were the Iroquois located? |
Eastern woodlands (New York) |
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League of Iroquois |
All of the Iroquios tribes formed into one alliance |
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What did Iroquois live in? |
Longhouses |
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Was columbus a hero or a villan? |
A hero to Europeans but a villan to Native Americans |
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Why did people come to the new world? |
For freedom of religion |
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What were challenges Jamestown faced? |
Diseases, starvation, murder, poisining, weather and NO GOLD |
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Columbian Exchange |
The exchange between the peoples of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres of goods and ideas |
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The english colonies democracy |
Beginning of a representative democracy |
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House of Burgesses |
First example of represenative democracy; where the representatives to the government met. |
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John Winthrop |
First governoe of the mass bay colony |
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Roger Williams |
beilieved the puritan church in mass. had too much power, he was than banned form the colony for believing in religious tolerance |
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Anne Hutchinson |
Held religious sermons in her home on what the preist had said.She was banned form the colony becuase it was said that women were not aloud to intrepret god's law |
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William Penn |
Tried to treat Native Americans farily; he laster founded pennsylvenia |
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What did New England depend on for trade? |
The sea |
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Why were the Middle colonies (breadbasket colonies) able to develop "cash crop?" |
They had the most fertile soil, which enabled them to grow wheats |
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Why did the south have a slave system and a platation economy? |
The had tons of acres of fertile soil, they bought slaves to harvest this land for them |
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Mercantilism |
The theory that a nations economic strength came from keeping a strict control over its colonial trade. (colonies existed for the benefit of the mothercounrty {England}) |
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Triangular Trade |
a 3-way trade between the West Indies( gave sugar and molasses) , New england (gave rum, gunsm gunpowder, and tools and West africa. |
