1. What is history?

2. Everything that happens is a part of history. (We will discuss the major stuff)

3. What do we call the study of the people, land and resources of an area?

4. geography

5. What do we call a person who studies history?

6. historian

7. Who researches and finds information for historians?

8. Social scientists

9. What do we call a first hand account?

10. Primary source

11. Where did the first Native Americans come from?

12. Siberia in Asia

13. What do we call a second hand account?

14. Secondary source

15. Is the following a primary or secondary source – encyclopedia

16. secondary

17. Is the following a primary or secondary source – journal

18. primary

19. Is the following a primary or secondary source – letter

20. primary

21. Is the following a primary or secondary source – video tape

22. primary

23. Is the following a primary or secondary source – text book

24. secondary

25. Is the following a primary or secondary source – biography

26. secondary

27. Is the following a primary or secondary source – autobiography

28. primary

29. Is the following a primary or secondary source – song

30. primary

31. What type of source is the most reliable?

32. primary

33. What do we call what it looks like outside at this very moment?

34. weather

35. What do we call the average weather over a period of time?

36. Climate

37. What do we call the total way of life of a group of people?

38. culture

39. When did the first Native Americans come to North America?

40. During the last ice age

41. How did the first Native Americans get to the North America?

42. Across a land bridge

43. What 5 tribes made up the Iroquois Confederacy?

44. Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk (SCOOM)

45. What did the Iroquois call themselves?

46. Haudenosaunee

47. What do the Iroquois call corn, beans and squash?

48. 3 sisters

49. What did the Iroquois live in?

50. longhouses

51. What did the Iroquois base their time upon?

52. Nature and the seasons

53. What is the America name for a family consisting of a mother, father and kids?

54. Nuclear family

55. What do we call the Iroquois nuclear family?

56. Fireside family

57. What is the American name for the family consisting of all the person’s relatives?

58. Extended family

59. What do we call the Iroquois extended family?

60. Longhouse family

61. What word means a person’s descent is traced through the female?

62. matrilineal

63. What do we call a bunch of longhouse families?

64. clan

65. What was the sixth nation to join the Iroquois Confederacy?

66. Tuscarora

67. Who were the founders of the Iroquois Confederacy?

68. Deganawida, Hiawatha

69. What are shells used for communication and trade called?

70. wampum

71. Who led the first exploration to sail around the world?

72. Magellan

73. What were the 3 reasons for Spanish colonization of the Americas?

74. God, Gold and Glory (3 G’s) – remember I might word these differently

75. Who explored the Mississippi River for France?

76. Marquette and Joliet

77. What do we call the transfer of goods and ideas between the new and old world?

78. Columbian Exchange

79. Who explored for both England and the Dutch?

80. Henry Hudson

81. Who explored the St. Lawrence River for France?

82. Jacques Cartier

83. What were the two main jobs for the French settlers?

84. Trapping and trading

85. What was the main occupation of the people of New Netherlands?

86. Fur trading

87. What European country originally controlled Canada?

88. France

89. How did Spanish settlement affect the Native Americans?

90. Death, slavery, Native Americans lost land

91. What European country controlled much of Central America and Mexico?

92. Spain

93. What European country controlled originally controlled New York State?

94. The Netherlands (also known as Holland or the Dutch)

95. What do we call a passageway through or around North America?

96. Northwest Passage

97. What Native American tribe became friends with the Dutch?

98. Iroquois

99. What Native American tribes became allies of the French?

100. Algonquins and Hurons

101. Bodies of Water

102. A - Pacific Ocean B - Gulf of Mexico C - Atlantic Ocean

103. Mountain Ranges

104. A - Appalachian Mountains B - Sierra Nevada C- Rocky Mountains D - Cascades

105. Physical Regions

106. A- Pacific Coast B – Rocky Mountain C- Interior Plains D - Appalachian Mountain E - Coastal Plains

107. Rivers

108. A - Missouri River B - Mississippi River C - Ohio River D - St. Lawrence River E - Rio Grande River

109. What region was known for its whalers?

110. New England

111. What are assemblies and legislatures?

112. Lawmaking bodies

113. Who was the founder of Maryland?

114. Lord Baltimore

115. What do we call people who agreed to work in exchange for their trip to the colonies being paid for?

116. Indentured servants

117. What goods were traded from Africa to the West Indies as part of the Triangular Trade Route?

118. slaves

119. What region grew wheat, barley and rye?

120. Middle Colonies

121. What types of goods were traded from England to the colonies as part of the triangular trade route?

122. Manufactured goods

123. In the triangular trade system, what goods were sent from the West Indies to the colonies?

124. Sugar and molasses (and slaves from Africa)

125. What colonial region was educated through private schools?

126. Middle colonies

127. Which regions farmers were mostly subsistence farmers?

128. New England

129. Who was the founder of Georgia?

130. James Oglethorpe

131. What colonial region was educated through public schools? (So they can read hte3 Bible.)

132. New England

133. What do we call the series of trading routes found in colonial times?

134. Triangular trade

135. What colonial region educated their children through tutors?

136. southern

137. Who was the founder of Pennsylvania?

138. William Penn

139. What region was known for its shipbuilding?

140. New England

141. What colony was founded as a home for debtors?

142. Georgia

143. What was the name for the series of laws passed to control the slaves?

144. Slave codes

145. What colonies legislature was called the House of Burgesses?

146. Virginia

147. What do we call a person who learned a trade from a master craftsman?

148. apprentice

149. What religion was associated with Maryland?

150. Catholic

151. What was the name of the slave trip from Africa to the colonies?

152. Middle Passage

153. What was the theory called which said that a country became strong by increasing trade and building up its gold supply.

154. mercantilism

155. What do we call the rich area of the Southern Colonies?

156. tidewater

157. What colony did the Puritans and Pilgrims settle in?

158. Massachusetts

159. What are crops called which are sold for a profit?

160. Cash crop

161. What was the name for the document which the Pilgrims wrote telling how they were going to govern their settlement?

162. Mayflower Compact

163. What is the belief that one race is superior to another?

164. racism

165. Who was the founder of Rhode Island?

166. Roger Williams

167. What colonial region was known as the Breadbasket Colonies?

168. Middle Colonies

169. What women said God spoke directly to her?

170. Anne Hutchinson

171. What do we call the area next to the Appalachian Mountains?

172. backcountry

173. Who was the founder of the colony later known as New York?

174. Peter Minuit

175. What was the religion associated with Pennsylvania?

176. Quakers

177. What were the German speaking people of Pennsylvania known as?

178. Pennsylvania Dutch

179. In the triangular trade system, what goods were sent from the colonies to Africa?

180. Tools, fish, lumber, etc. (things found in the colonies)

181. Which region was home to plantations?

182. Southern Colonies

183. Which region had the longest growing seasons?

184. Southern Colonies

185. What region was the most religious?

186. New England (mostly Massachusetts)

187. What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?

188. Jamestown

189. What word means a willingness to let others practice their own beliefs?

190. toleration

191. What region had rocky soil?

192. New England

193. What leader helped Jamestown to survive?

194. John Smith

195. Which region was known for its craftsmen?

196. Middle Colonies (especially the Pennsylvania Dutch)

197. What was the general name for goods such as lumber and iron, which were traded from the colonies to England?

198. Raw materials

199. Who was the founder of Connecticut?

200. Thomas Hooker

201. What were the main crops of the Southern Colonies?

202. Tobacco, indigo and rice

203. What type of labor dominated southern plantations?

204. slaves

205. What do we call goods entering a country?

206. imports

207. What do we call goods leaving a country?

208. exports

209. Where did the French and Indian War begin?

210. The Ohio River Valley.

211. What was the cause of the French and Indian War?

212. The cause of the French and Indian War was the fur trade with the Native Americans. It was also part of a series of wars that had been going on for the last 100 years between France and Britain.

213. What territory did France claim before the war began?

214. France controlled much of modern day Canada as well as the Mississippi River valley.

215. What tribes were allies of the French in the French and Indian War?

216. The Algonquins and Hurons.

217. What tribe was an ally of the British in the French and Indian War?

218. Iroquois

219. What advantages did the French have in the French and Indian War?

220. They fought like the Native Americans using the trees for cover. They also had only 1 government in North America which made decisions a lot easier to be made.

221. What disadvantage did France have in the French and Indian War?

222. The French had a lot less people in the colonies.

223. What advantages did the English have in the French and Indian War?

224. The British had the best army in the world. They also had many more people in the colonies to fight the war.

225. What disadvantages did the English have in the French and Indian War?

226. The English tried to fight the war as they would in the open fields of Europe. They did not take advantage of the cover offered and were easy targets for the French.

227. What was the last battle of the French and Indian War?

228. The Battle of Quebec

229. What was the name of the treaty at the end of the French and Indian War?

230. The Treaty of Paris

231. What did the Treaty of Paris say?

232. Most of the French land in the colonies was given to Britain.

233. Who proposed the Albany Plan of Union?

234. Ben Franklin

235. What was the purpose of the Albany Plan of Union?

236. To unite the colonies to plan for defense. It didn’t work because colonies didn’t want to give up any power.

237. What act forbid settlers to move west of the Appalachian Mountains?

238. The Proclamation of 1763 forbid settlers to move west of the Appalachian Mountains. Many settlers ignored this proclamation. Britain was trying to stop settler / Native American conflicts over land.

239. What act, passed in 1765, placed taxes on legal documents such as wills, diplomas, marriage papers, newspapers, playing cards and even dice?

240. The Stamp Act.

241. What was the colonists reaction to the Stamp Act?

242. Riots broke out in cities like New York. Mobs harassed British tax officials by throwing rocks and tarring and feathering them. They hanged or burned effigies of the British officials.

243. A huge complaint the colonists had was that of “No taxation without representation!” What did this mean?

244. “No taxation without representation” arose because the colonists did not elect anybody to the British Parliament. The colonists claimed that Parliament could not tax them because they were represented in Parliament.

245. What was the Stamp Act Congress?

246. The Stamp Act Congress was when 9 colonies sent delegates to discuss what to do about the Stamp Act. They decided to boycott British goods.

247. What does boycott mean?

248. Boycott means to refuse to buy certain goods. It was a very common and successful means of colonial protest. The boycott caused the Stamp Act to be repealed.

249. What does repeal mean?

250. Repeal means to cancel. The Stamp Act was repealed after the colonial boycott.

251. In 1767 the Townshend Acts were passed. What did the Townshend Acts tax?

252. The Townshend Acts taxed glass, paint, lead, paper and tea. These were very important colonial goods.

253. What was the colonists reaction to the Townshend Acts?

254. The colonists responded to the Townshend Acts by getting merchants to sign nonimportation agreements. Nonimportation agreements said that these people would stop importing British goods that were taxed by the Townshend Acts.

255. The Sons of Liberty and the Daughters of Liberty were also formed. These were groups of men (and women) who protested British actions.

256. Writs of assistance were another thing established under the Townshend Acts. What were writs of assistance?

257. Writs of assistance allowed a customs officer to search a ship without giving a reason. Writs of assistance were often used by the British to harass Sons of Liberty and other people thought to be against the British actions.

258. This person was a failure on business. He lived in Boston where he was a leader of the Sons of Liberty. He organized the committees of correspondence. Who was he?

259. Sam Adams

260. What were the committees of correspondence?

261. The committees of correspondence were a group of people who wrote letters telling people in other colonies what was going on in the writers colony. They were started by Sam Adams in Boston.

262. This lawyer from Massachusetts was Sam Adams cousin. His knowledge of British law was very helpful to the colonists. Who was he?

263. John Adams

264. The Quartering Act was passed in 1767. What did the Quartering Act say?

265. The Quartering Act said that colonists had to house and feed British soldiers.

266. The Boston Massacre happened on March 5, 1770. What was the Boston Massacre?

267. In the Boston Massacre, British soldiers shot and killed 5 colonists. They were mostly Sons of Liberty. The colonists provoked the British into firing. The Sons of Liberty used this event to get people mad at the British.

268. Britain repealed much of the Townshend Acts in 1770. It did keep the tax on tea. This small tax was designed to show the colonists that Parliament did have the right to tax the colonies.

269. Parliament gave the British East India a monopoly of the tea trade with the Tea Act in 1773. This put many colonial merchants out of work. It was a very small tax but the colonists believed in “no taxation without representation.” What did this lead to?

270. The Tea Act led to the Boston Tea Party. 342 crates of tea were dumped into Boston harbor. There were similar responses in several other locations. Colonists throughout the colonies agreed to boycott tea, often making their own substitutes.

271. Britain was not happy with the Boston Tea Party. It responded with the Intolerable Acts which were designed to punish the colonists of Massachusetts. What were the Intolerable Acts?

272. The Intolerable Acts shut down the port of Boston. Ships could not come into or leave the port which made it very difficult for the citizens of Boston to get supplies. Other colonies sent supplies by land.

273. A new Quartering Act was also passed. This made colonists who weren’t too happy with the British house British soldiers. This raised tensions in Boston. Town meetings were also limited to 1 a year. This was designed to keep the people of Massachusetts from organizing against the British.

274. The Intolerable Acts also said that British officials would be sent back to British to stand trial if they committed a crime. It was widely believed that these people would face no punishment in England since witnesses could not afford to go to Britain to testify.

275. How did the colonists react to the Intolerable Acts?

276. The committees of correspondence sent supplies to help Boston. The First Continental Congress also met in Philadelphia in 1774. What was the first Continental Congress?

277. The First Continental Congress was a meeting of 12 of the colonies. It agreed to boycott British goods. Each colony was urged to set up its own militia or volunteer army.

278. What was the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World?”

279. This referred to the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Colonial minutemen (soldiers who could be ready at a moments notice) stood up to the British. Why did this battle take place?

280. The British were trying to destroy guns and ammunition at Concord and capture leaders of the Sons of Liberty. The British were unsuccessful and were attacked on the way back to Boston, being defeated by the Minutemen.

281. It was called the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” because news of this battle spread to all corners of the Earth.

282. Who was the great speaker for Virginia? He had a fiery temper and was a member of the House of Burgesses.

283. Patrick Henry. He was known for saying “Give me liberty, or give me death!”