FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 1

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 1

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Question 1: Why was Canada and Louisiana lightly populated?

Answer:

Extreme weather, must be Catholic, little freedom

Question 2: What were the Toltec known for?

Answer:

First civilization, Teotihuacan

Question 3: What was the economy of the middle colonies?

Answer:

"breadbasket" (wheat, corn)

Question 4: How many Indians lived in the New World?

Answer:

50-75 million, SAME AS EUROPE!

Question 5: How were the Spanish colonies governed?

Answer:

Centralized rule from Spain through a governor

Question 6: What is Oliver Cromwell known for?

Answer:

Interregnum - England ruled by common man & NOT the monarchy

Question 7: Cheyenne

Answer:

Plains

Question 8: What was the status of the population in 1750?

Answer:

rapidly growing - doubling every 20 years, majority of the population is between 16-21

Question 9: founded Georgia as a haven for debtors

Answer:

James Oglethorpe

Question 10: What was life like for the Plains Indians?

Answer:

Nomadic (buffalo)

Question 11: Kiowa

Answer:

Plains

Question 12: Where were the French colonies located?

Answer:

Louisiana, Canada, West Indies

Question 13: headed the Dominion of New England

Answer:

Edmund Andros

Question 14: What was the mortality rate in the Virginia colony?

Answer:

42 years, 50% die before age of 20

Question 15: What was the sex ratio in the Virginia colony?

Answer:

6:1/4:1 - lots more men!

Question 16: What was the cultural status of England at this time?

Answer:

Renaissance (Shakespeare & Sir Francis Drake)

Question 17: Zuni

Answer:

Southwest

Question 18: What are the three levels of Virginia's government?

Answer:

British Empire/Parliament colonial level local level

Question 19: leader of the Great Awakening

Answer:

Jonathan Edwards

Question 20: a type of primitive corporation, used to fund Jamestown

Answer:

joint-stock company

Question 21: What was unique about the colonial level of Virginia's government?

Answer:

governor (appointed by King) House of Burgesses

Question 22: What did the British Parliament consist of?

Answer:

House of Commons (elected by landowners) House of Lords (hereditary noblemen) Question 23: punished by exile for advocating separation of church and state in Massachusetts Bay; founded Rhode Island

Answer:

Roger Williams Question 24: What was the triangular trade route between West Indies, America, and Europe?

Answer:

to West Indies: grain, lumber, fish

to Europe: sugar, molasses

to New World: goods

Question 25: What were the Aztecs known for?

Answer:

Irrigation system, Tenochtitlan, conquered by Cortes in 1519, had population of 300,000 (MORE THAN

EUROPEAN CITY)

Question 26: Sioux

Answer:

Plains Question 27: Congregational minister; led a group of ministers to oppose the Salem Witch Trials as convicting people on dubious evidence

Answer:

Cotton Mather