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Vocabulary GeographyEuropean
Exploration13 Colonies Crisis in the
ColoniesRevolutionary
War
200
What is a handmade object from ancient times?
A 100
Define culture.
A 200
A way of life.
Examples: religion, food, clothing, etc…
A 200
What is a true account or eyewitness of an event in
history?
A 300
A primary source.
A 300
What is a secondary source?
A 400
A second hand account of an event. Someone who was not
an eyewitness.
A 400
Primary source: diary, letter, photo
Secondary source: textbook, biography
A 500
What is a peninsula?
B 100
Land surrounded on three sides by water.
B 100
A theory that the first Americans crossed a land bridge from Asia to North America by following the
migrating animals.
B 200
Virginia in 1607
B 300
Iroquois used the longhouse because they lived in the
eastern woodlands in NY.
B 500
What is the Northwest Passage?
C 100
Searching for a direct water route through or around
North America.
C 100
Describe the Columbian Exchange and positiveand negative results.
C 200
An exchange of goods, ideas and diseases from Europe to the Americas. Positives of
spreading ideas and diversity of goods. Negatives were
diseases were spread.
C 200
Explain how the Native Americans were affected by the Columbian Exchange.
C 300
Native Americans died from the European diseases.
C 300
C 400
Describe the fur trade.
French explorers trapping beaver.
C 400
Jamestown. They were coming for money reasons
and grew tobacco. House of Burgesses was a
representative government.
C 500
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island.
City on the Hill- MBC as an example for others to follow
(John Winthrop)
D 100
Name the 4 Middle Colonies. What was the nickname?
D 200
NY, NJ, Delaware, PA
Breadbasket colonies
D 200
Name the 5 Southern Colonies. Why was there a
middle passage?
D 300
Virginia, S.C., N.C., Maryland, Georgia
Slaves were needed for their economy.
D 300
Describe the different aspects of life in Pennsylvania. (founder…religion…)
D 400
Quakers, William Penn founded it, They were religiously tolerant.
D 400
Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch Governor, gave Up New Amsterdam without a fight!
D 500
During the French and Indian War what was the AlbanyPlan of Union?
E 100
A plan made by Ben Franklin to encourage the 13
colonies to join as one government.
E 100
What was the Treaty of Paris?
E 200
The agreement that ended the French and Indian War and made France return the land
in North America.
E 200
E 300
Describe the Stamp Act.
Tax on paper goods, wedding licenses, cards, etc…
E 300
E 400
•What does “No taxation without representation” mean?
American colonists were outraged that they did not have a voice in England’s
parliament when they were being taxed.
E 400
Describe some of the protests that occurred: boycotting, tar
and feathering, and the Boston Tea Party.
E 500
Boycotting- refusal to buy goods
Tar and feathering of tax collectors
Boston Tea Party- led by Sam Adams and dumped over 300 tea
boxes into Boston Harbor. This led to the Intolerable Acts.
E 500
Describe a Patriot vs. a Loyalist.
F 100
Patriots- fight against British rule
Loyalist- wanted to be loyal to England and fought for
British side.
F 100
Who was Thomas Paine and what did he do?
F 200
He wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense” that said the colonists should break
free of England.
F 200
What was the Declaration of Independence?
F 300
Document written by Thomas Jefferson expressing: the
wrongs of King George III, natural rights of the people, and declaring the U.S. as a
free nation.
F 300
Describe where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired.
F 400
Lexington and Concord was the first shots because the British were trying to find
ammunition in Concord for the war.
F 400
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the Americans vs. British.
F 500
Advantages of Americans-
Owned their own rifles, it was their land
Disadvantages- militia (not trained)
Advantages of British- well trained, had loyalists (colonists) on their
side
Disadvantages- redcoats, unfamiliar land
F 500
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