America

Question 1

Original inhabitants

Answer 1

• 20 million indigenous inhabitants
• came from Asia across Bering Strait
• many different tribes

Question 2

Who got to America first

Answer 2

1) the Irish priests
2) the Vikings
3) Christopher Columbus

Question 3

The Vikings

Answer 3

• Sea-going people from Scandinavia = Vinland
• Lief Erickson(988-1000)

Question 4

Christopher Columbus

Answer 4

• 1492
• an Italian explorer
• wanted to open a trade route between Europe and Asia - called inhabitants Indians
• 3 voyages
• Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

Question 5

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 5

• an Italian sailor and cartographer, described voyages of Columbus
• called it the land of Amerigo - America

Question 6

Spanish colonies

Answer 6

• 1565
• Mexico, Florida

Question 7

French colony

Answer 7

Louisiana

Question 8

Dutch colony

Answer 8

New Amsterdam

Question 9

Swedish colony

Answer 9

Fort Christina

Question 10

British colony

Answer 10

• 1607
• Jamestown

Question 11

Kiowa tribe

Answer 11

• hunter gatherer economy
• now Oklahoma
• ghost dance

Question 12

Sioux tribe

Answer 12

• used canoes for fishing
• believed in Wakan Tanka - the only god
• decorated clothes with beads and embroidery

Question 13

Maya tribe

Answer 13

• sacrificed people for gods
• loved chocolate
• created calendar
• practiced art and mathematics

Question 14

Kuna tribe

Answer 14

• live in Panama
• matriarchal society
• speak kuna and spanish

Question 15

Pueblo tribe

Answer 15

• famous for the adobe dwellings
• had rituals such as dancing
• good farmers

Question 16

Types of dwellings

Answer 16

Adobe, teepee, grasshouse, wigwam, longhouse

Question 17

Symbols of native american culture

Answer 17

Totem pole, peace pipe, warbonnet, hand beaded moccasins, duck decoy, tomahawk

Question 18

1607

Answer 18

The first British colony was found in Virginia - Jamestown

Question 19

1619

Answer 19

• arrival of the first slaves from Africa
• first women in English colonies
• formation of the House of Burgesses

Question 20

House of Burgesses

Answer 20

Primitive government - assembly of chosen people

Question 21

1620

Answer 21

the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth in a small ship “the Mayflower”

Question 22

1692

Answer 22

Witch hunting, Salem

Question 23

Triangular trade

Answer 23

America to Europe - sugar and tobacco
Europe to Africa - textile, rum, manufactured goods
Africa to America - slaves

Question 24

Indebted serviture

Answer 24

for people who wanted to come to America - plantators paid their trip and they worked for them, for 7 years

Question 25

Permanent slaves

Answer 25

slaves forever

Question 26

Plantatioms

Answer 26

large estates in tropical or subtropical regions - slave labor

Question 27

By the law slave was considered

Answer 27

property or chattel and was deprived of most of the rights

Question 28

How new slaves were generated

Answer 28

- Captured in wars - kidnapped - offspring of the slaves - enslaved as a punishment for crime - sold into slavery - self sale

Question 29

The 13 colonies

Answer 29

Europeans came to North America looking for religious freedom, economic opportunities, and political liberty. They created 13 colonies on the East Coast of the continent. Later, when the colonists won independence, these colonies became the 13 original states.

Question 30

1754-1763

Answer 30

French-Indian war

Question 31

Navigation acts

Answer 31

England passed laws called the Navigation Acts in the 1600s and 1700s to regulate trade in each English colony, or place under the rule of their nation. Goods which were imported, or brought in, and exported, or sent out, were subject to strict regulations.

Question 32

Sugar act

Answer 32

forbidden import of foreign rum and duty on molasses - 1764

Question 33

Currency act

Answer 33

they had to use the same currency as Britain - 1751

Question 34

Stamp act

Answer 34

special stamps had to be purchased for every document - 1765

Question 35

Quartering act

Answer 35

forced colonists to provide food and houses for british troops

Question 36

declaratory act

Answer 36

British Parliament was in charge of passing laws for the colonies

Question 37

Townshend acts

Answer 37

Duties on glass, lead, tea, paper in colonies