Social Studies Exam
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- Clan
- Groups of families
- Lineage
- Tracing their line of origin from a common ancestor
- Guinea
- In Africa, had 3 forest kingdoms, Oyo, Ife, and Benin
- Koran
- The muslim holy book
- Askia Muhammad
- The ruler of Songhai
- Songhai
- In the 1400's, one of the largest empires in the world
- Kinship network
- A group of relatives
- Division of labor
- Assigning tasks equaly
- Oral tradition
- Passing on history by word of mouth
- Colombian exchange
- A permanent exchanging of goods between Africa, Europe, and the Americas
- Christopher Colombus
- Italian explorer, who discovered the new world by accident
- Who paid for the funding of Christopher Columbus' journey?
- Isabella, Queen of Castile
- Why did Isabella fund Christopher Columbus' journey?
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1) So she could begin a major trading route and make Spain a powerful country again
2) To convert people to Christianity - Great Migration
- A wave of English migration across the Atlantic Ocean
- Pilgrims
- English migrants who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Religous toleration
- The idea that people of different religions should live in peace together
- Puritans
- Members of the Protistant Church of England who wanted to purify the Protistant Church from within
- Samuel de Champlain
- A French explorer who founded Quebec in 1608
- Mercantilism
- An economic theory which was meant to ncrease a natio's wealth by trying to keep as much gold and silver as possible
- Balance of trade
- To export more goods than were imported
- Navigation Act
- Approved by Charles II in 1660. It required that the colonies only sold certain goods to England
- Salutary neglect
- The British policy that England would not interfere with the colonies which would prove beneficial
- Fall line
- Where the inland hills meet the costal plain
- Triangular trade
- The trade between Africa Europe and the Americas
- Gentry
- Men and women who are wealthy enough to afford others to work for them
- Cousinocracy
- When landowning gentry were related through marriage or bloodline
- William Byrd
- A man who lived very well mannered.
- Benjamin Franklin
- A man from Philadelphia who was a printer and leading statesman in America who created a stir in France by dressing like a "country bumpkin"
- Eliza Lucas Pinckney
- A woman who took hold of her father's plantation
- Middle passage
- The part of the triangular trade that went between Africa and the Americas
- Low country
- The seabord region of Georgia and South Carolina that was formed by a coastal plain
- Great awakening
- The revival of religous feeling that was brought about by preachers to bring about new religous independance
- American Revolution
- The war that lead to the independance of America
- War for Independance
- The war after the revolution that finally brought about independance
- Minutemen
- Local residents that were organized as a defensive force who had pledged to respond in a matter of minutes when called to action
- George Washington
- The officer in charge in the revolution and the war for independance, and the man who would once be the president of the united states of america
- French and Indian war
- The first war that lasted unitl 1763 which was the final struggle among the British, French, and Native Americans for control of eastern North America
- Natural rights
- Rights that belonged to everyone simply because they were human
- Thomas Jefferson
- An American aristocrat
- Thomas Paine
- A man who formed, "Common Sense", a packet telling that anyone could undestand th events that were occuring
- Popular Sovereignty
- The idea that the governments get their power from the consent of the governed
- Declaration of Independance
- The document created by the Continental Congress which stated their Independance from England
- Treaty of Paris
- The treaty which was singed in September 1783 which was result of negotiations with the British
- Patriots
- The rebels
- Tories
- Colonists who remained loyal to King George III
- Marquis de Lafayette
- A French general who faught alongside the Americans who later persuaded the French to assist with an army of 6,000 men
- Baron Von Steuben
- A French general who drilled George Washington's troops during a winter at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania
- What was 3 Disadvantages of the Americans?
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1) The British had the richest economy
2) It had the largest Navy
3) It had a confident Military - What were 3 disadvantages of the British?
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1) Many of the British sympathized with the Americans and did not take part in the war
2) The British had to fight an enemy that was thousands of miles across an ocean which they were not familiar with
3) The Americans would not give up - The Battle of Bunker Hill
- At Boston on Breed's Hill in June 1775. The British won, but the battle proved that the Americans would not be intimidated easily
- The War for Morale
- 1776-1778. The British launched an attack on New York City. The British won but it raised the Americans morale
- Hessians
- British mercinaries
- How did the war change women's ideas?
- The war changed women's ideas because they realized that since the Americans can have more freedom, then why cant women have more freedom and rights?