History test vocab

Question 1

Wigwam

Answer 1

Portable homes, allowing migration. They were constructed with thin, bent wooden poles that served as a frame, covered with bark, animals hides, or mats made of plant fibers. Holes in the roof allowed smoke to escape.

Question 2

Longhouse

Answer 2

Longhouses were up to 100ft long made with wooden frames and covered in bark. Holds up to a dozen(12) families. Holes in the roof allowed smoke to escape.

Question 3

Sachem

Answer 3

A leader that served under the head chief or head chief, managing villages and making decisions such as when to wage war.

Question 4

Primary source

Answer 4

A primary source is a first-hand source and the information comes from either a person from that time or an artifact. In other words, it is an original record.

Question 5

Subsistence farming

Answer 5

Farming only enough food to food a family with no surplus.

Question 6

Cash Crops

Answer 6

Cash Crops are surplus crops that farmers would sell for a profit. In other words, crops grown with the intention of selling.

Question 7

Indentured servant

Answer 7

An indentured servant was a servant from Europe who would come to the Americas to work for a planter for anywhere from 4-7 years. After their term, they were promised land and money. In exchange for their services, the planters would pay for their voyage from Britain to America.

Question 8

Race

Answer 8

A term created by humans as a social construct used to describe and categorize people into various groups based on physical characteristics such as skin color.

Question 9

Olaudah Equiiano

Answer 9

Olaudah Equiiano was a African American who was a slave. He was captured by English captors and taken along the Middle Passage to America where he worked as a slave. He was eventually traded to Britain and was apart of the royal navy. He eventually bought his freedom and wrote an autobiography.