Unit Review Part 1; Native American and Colonist Relations

Question 1

What was the Indian Removal act?

Answer 1

President Andrew Jackson passed it - the formal language meant they could switch land that the Native Americans owned from the southeast to “Indian Territory.” In practice, the Native Americans were forced off of their land.

Question 2

What is a Primary Source?

Answer 2

A source that is either an eyewitness account or from the time period it discusses/is being used to study, or both.

Question 3

What is a secondary source?

Answer 3

A source based off of a primary source, but not one itself

Question 4

What are the 4 native american cultural regions we studied?

Answer 4

Plains, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest

Question 5

What were Naitive american religious beliefs?

Answer 5

Honoring nature, spirits were in everything

Question 6

How was the Iroquis Confederancy established?

Answer 6

The great peacemaker came and helps a guy unite the 5 tribes in the 1500s

Question 7

What is a clan?

Answer 7

A group of related families with a male leader

Question 8

How were Iroquis leaders chosen?

Answer 8

The women chose the leaders - and could remove power - it was a matrilinecheal community.

Question 9

What was “Gold, God, Glory”?

Answer 9

The colonists wanted to get rich off gold, Spread christianity (Primarily protestantity), and get powerful.

Question 10

What was the First Sucessful english colony?

Answer 10

Jamestown, founeded by the Virginia company in 1607

Question 11

What was the first year like for the colony of Jamestown?

Answer 11

It was hard, as only the rich could afford to colonize and they didn’t know how to farm, nor did they want to know, so nearly half of them died the first winter. The government argued with themselves instead of making plans for the colony.

Question 12

How did John Smith help the colony of Jamestown?

Answer 12

John SMith forced the colonists to farm and not spend their time looking for gold, otherwise they wouldn’t get anything from the community stores, and he also made tobacco a cash crop so that they economy there improved.

Question 13

What was the relationship between the powhatans and the english?

Answer 13

The powhatans were wlcoming at first, but when they could no longer give the english food becuase they had barely enough for themselves the english attacked, and distrust grew.

Question 14

List the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies

Answer 14

New England: Massachutasates, New hampshire, rhode island, conneticut

Middle Colonies: New york, pennslyavaniea, new jersey, delaware.

Southern Colonies: Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia

Question 15

What is the difference between the pilgrims and the puritans?

Answer 15

The puritans wanted to purify and refine the C of E, while the Pilgrims wanted to be even stricter than the C of E, and both of these views are extremist.

Question 16

What was the english Settlers view of land?

Answer 16

Land was something to be owned and sold to make a profit

Question 17

What was the Native American view of land?

Answer 17

That if you took care of it you had a right to it, so someone couldn;t force you off, but they could also live with you. You can sell what you can carry away to be sold, but cannot sell the land itself. They had a very spiritual connection with the land as well.

Question 18

What was traded between the Native Americans and the French?

Answer 18

Beaver and Beaver skins

Question 19

Why did the French have a better relationship with the Native Americans than the British?

Answer 19

The British expanded quickly, taking land without asking or need for it, and were not kind to the Native Americans. On the other hand, the French lived among the Native Americans and Traded with them, building up trust, as well as following their customs and expanding slower than the British.

Question 20

Why did the French and Indian War break out?

Answer 20

The British wanted the resources in the Ohio river valley and the french were using it, so they fought, with most Native Americans on the French side, and only a few nations promising bare neutrality to the British.