Social Studies - extra credit
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- Primary source
- Fristhand information about people or events. Includes official documents.
- Archaeologist
- are people who study of evidence left by early people in order to find out about their way of life.
- Culture
- is the way of life that a people have developed
- Beringia
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- Mayan Accomplishments
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- Incan Accomplishments
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- Vasco da Gama
- Sailed for Portugal; Sailed around Africa to India (1497-1498)
- Magellan
- Ferdinand Magellan - Sailed for Spain; Led first expedition to sail around the world (1519-1522)
- John Cabot
- Sailed for England; Discovered Newfoundland (1497)
- Northwest Passage
- a waterway to Asia, through or around North America
- Mayflower Compact
- On November 11, 1620, the 41 male passengers on the Mayflower signed a binding agreement for self-government.
- Iroquois Confederacy
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- James Oglethorpe
- Founded Georgia in 1732
- House of Burgesses
- representative assembly in colonial Virginia; it first met in Jamestown, Virginia, on July 30, 1619
- Triangular Trade
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Colonial trade route between New England, the West Indies and Africa
o New England to the West Indies: Fish and lumber
o The West Indies to New England: Sugar and molasses
oNew England to Africa: Rum, guns, gunpowder, cloth and tools
o Africa to the West Indies: Slaves - Puritans
- a group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Quakers
- Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people
- Acts of Toleration
- a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians
- Roger Williams
- a Puritan who challenged the leaders of Massachusetts Bay; believed in religious tolerance
- Navigation Acts
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A series of laws to regulate trade between the colonies and England
o Passed to ensure that only England benefited from trade with the colonies.
§ Encouraged colonists to build their own ships!
§ New England became a prosperous shipbuilding center!
§ Colonial merchants did not have to compete with other merchants BUT⬦.
o Many colonists resented them because they felt that ONLY England benefited from them! - Mercantilism
- Economic theory that a nation becomes strong by building up its gold supply and expanding trade
- Middle Passage
- The trip from Africa to the Americas that started the slave trade.
- French and Indian War
- a war that took place from 1754 to 1763 that led to the end of French power in North America
- Albany Plan of Union
- proposal by Benjamin Franklin to create one government for the 13 colonies
- Treaty of Paris 1763
- a 1763 agreement between Britain and France that ended the French & Indian War; peace treaty between the US and Britain, ratified in 1783, that recognized the US as an independent nation
- Proclamation of 1763
- a law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
- Stamp Act
- a 1765 law that placed new duties on legal documents, and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and dice