Social Studies Final Flashcards
Why was the Iroquois Confederacy formed?
To make the Iroquois stronger in war
Beringia
Land bridge made up of glacial ice that enabled the early Americans to cross from Asia to North America.
What country was the first to send sailors into the ocean looking for a faster way to “The East”?
Portugal
Columbian Exchange
The trade of Old and New World germs, animals, plants, peoples, and cultures.
Identify two reasons people from England wanted to start colonies in the New World:
To grow British empire
To make more money
Subsistence Farming:
Plant or livestock used to maintain for the farmer and their family
Commercial Farming:
When food is produced for sale
What time period is the Triangular Trade associated with?
16th — 19th centuries
Albany Plan of Union:
A plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
Stamp Tax
Taxed newspapers, legal documents, dice, and playing cards
Sugar Tax
Taxed sugar, and other products imported into the American colonies from non-british sources
Townshed acts
Taxes on imports
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws passed by the British after the Boston Tea Party. The l laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party
Patriot
Colonist who wants the colonies to be their own independent country
Loyalist
Colonist who remains loyal to the king and England
