Thick sheets of ice that covered much of the world between10,000 and 100,000 years ago.
FA100
What are glaciers?
FA200
Many scientists believe that peoplefirst came to North America by crossingover this.
FA200
What is a land bridge?
FA300
The idea that the first people to NorthAmerica crossed the arctic waters byboat and traveled southward alongthe Pacific coast.
FA300
What is the coastal-route theory?
FA400
A method to water crops by channeling water from rivers orstreams.
FA400
What is irrigation?
FA500
An advanced culture in which peoplehave developed cities, science, and industries.
FA500
What is a civilization?
EC100
This group of people observed the stars and created the most accuratecalendar known until modern times.
EC100
Who are the Mayas?
EC200
This is the great capital city that theAztecs built on the site of presentday Mexico City.
EC200
What is Tenochtitlán?
EC300
Like a number of other ancient peoples the Aztecs practiced this as an offering to their gods.
EC300
What is human sacrifice?
EC400
In the 1400’s this group made upthe largest empire that stretched down the coast of South America along the Andes.
EC400
Who are the Incas?
EC500
Cuzco, the Inca capital, was linked to other cities and townsby a great network of these.
EC500
What are roads?
C100
Ways of life.
C100
What is a culture?
C200
People of this area lived in a vastand harsh land, some of it coveredwith ice all year long.
C200
What is the far north?
C300
Many Native Americans lived in this region where so much food was available that people were able to live in large, permanent settlements even though they weren’tfarmers.
C300
What is the Northwest?
C400
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C400
The northern part of this region has forests and grasslands that could bevery cold in the winter and the southernportion could be desertlike.
C400
What is the Far West?
C500
The earliest people in this region livedby hunting, fishing, and foraging for nuts and berries, later they had taken up farming.
C500
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
E100
The transfer of people, products,and ideas between the hemispheres.
E100
What is the Columbian Exchange?
E200
Soldier-adventurers who set out toexplore and conquer the world unknownto them.
E200
What are conquistadors?
E300
The Spanish believed they hada duty to convert Native Americansto Christianity so they set up these religious settlements.
E300
What are missions?
E400
The idea that colonies existed to Make the home country wealthyAnd powerful.
E400
What is mercantilism?
E500
This group of people first claimedland in North American based on the exploration of the Hudson River.
E500
Who are the Dutch?
F100
A document issued by a government that grants specificrights to a person or company.
F100
What is a charter?
F200
The first English colonists arrived in Virginiain 1607, they built a fort that they called this.
F200
What is Jamestown?
F300
Daily Double!
F300
With the creation of the House of Burgesses, Virginia developed a traditionof representative government which means this.
F300
What is a form of government in which voters elect people to makelaws for them?
F400
A person who takes a religiousjourney.
F400
What is a pilgrim?
F500
The Pilgrims realized they needed rulesso 41 men signed this which was thefirst document in which colonists claimeda right to govern themselves.
F500
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Double Jeopardy!
13 Colonies Governing the Colonies
Colonial Society
Slavery New Ideas
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13200
The Puritans who settled in Massachusetts Bay did not believein religious toleration which means this.
13200
What is recognizing that other people have the right to different opinions and beliefs?
1340
Each Puritan town governed itselfby setting up an assembly of townspeoplethat decides local issues which is called this.
13400
What is a town meeting?
13600
William Penn wanted to find a place for these people to live where they would be safe from religious persecution.
13400
Who are the Quakers?
13800
To be eligible to vote in the colonies you had to meet this criteria.
13800
What is be a white, land owningmale?
131000
The economy in the tidewater region of the south was dominatedby these large farms.
131000
What are plantations?
G200
The first document to place restrictions on an English ruler’spower.
G200
What is the Magna Carta?
G400
The Magna Carta called for the creation of a Great Council which developed into this two house legislature which consisted of the House of Lords and the House of Commons.
G400
What is Parliament?
G600
A written list of freedoms thata government promises to protect.
G600
What is a bill of rights?
G800
Daily Double!
G800
The definition of habeas corpus.
G800
What is the principle that a person cannot be held in prisonwithout being charged with a specific crime?
G1000
The case of John Peter Zengerhelped establish this importantright.
G1000
What is the freedom of the press?
CS200
A family that includes, in addition to theparents and their children, other memberssuch as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
CS200
What is an extended famiy?
CS400
Besides caring for children, women had many responsibilities that had to do with the home or household duringcolonial times which is also known as this.
CS400
What are domestic responsibilities?
CS600
Boys who were learning trades would live in the home of a master artisan to learn all he could, they were called this.
CS600
What are apprentices?
CS800
The upper class of colonial society.
CS800
What is the gentry?
CS1000
The definition of indentured servant.
CS1000
What is a person who signs a contractto work from 4 to 10 years in the colonies for anyone who would oay for his or her ocean passage to the Americas?
S200
Three way trade between the coloniesthe islands of the Caribbean, and Africa.
S200
What is triangular trade?
S400
The voyage across the Atlanticthat transported slaves on slaveships.
S400
What is the Middle Passage?
S600
Since most English colonistsbelieved they were superior to Africans, slavery was linked to this.
S600
What is racism?
S800
White colonists were nervousthat slaves would band togetherand revolt so they wrote strict laws restricting the rights and activities ofslaves which is known as this.
S800
What are slave codes?
S1000
Planters preferred slaves overthis type of people because they were temporary, once their term wasup they were set free. Slaves were owned for life.
S1000
What are indentured servants?
NI200
Puritan public schools were set up using this type of money. Today publicschools are funded by taxes only.
NI200
What are private and publicmoney?
NI400
This began as a reaction againstwhat some Christians saw as a declineof religious zeal in the colonies.
NI400
What is the Great Awakening?
NI600
The ideas of these two Enlightenmentthinkers helped shape the founding and basis of government in the United States.
NI600
Who are Locke and Montesquieu?
NI800
Rights that belong to every human being from birth and thatcan not be taken away. Some include life, Liberty, and property.
NI800
What are natural rights?
NI1000
Daily Double!
NI1000
The Methodist and Baptist Church.
NI1000
What are new churches that formedas a result of the Great Awakening?
Final Jeopardy!
In Montesquieu’s book he argued thatthe powers of government should beclearly defined and limited.
What did he favor, what is the definition,and how does it protect the people?
What is Separation of Powers?
The division of the power of governmentinto separate branches. It protects the rights of the people because it keepsany individual or group from gaining toomuch power.