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30 Cards in this Set
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Migrated |
Scientist believe that the first Americans _____ from Asia to North America about 10,000 years ago. |
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Migrate |
To move from one place and establish a home in a new place is to _____. |
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Beringia |
Scientist call the land bridge between Asia and North America ____. |
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Environment |
A(n) ____ includes everything that surrounds us-- land, water, animals, and plants. |
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Adapting |
Groups of American Indians survived by ____, or changing, their style of living to suit each environment and its natural resources. |
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Natural resources |
Useful materials found in nature, including water, vegetation, animals, and minerals are known as ____. |
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Culture |
____ is a people's way of life, including beliefs, customs, food, dwellings, and clothes. |
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Cultural region |
A(n) ____ is made up of people who share a similar language and way of life. |
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Artifact |
An object made or used by people in the past is known as a(n) ___. |
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Columbian exchange |
The exchange of plants animals disease, and people across the Atlantic ocean between Europe and the Americas is known as the____. |
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Slavery |
____ is the treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved. |
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Conquistadors |
Spanish soldier-explorers, especially those who conquered the native peoples of Mexico and Peru are called ____. |
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Colony |
A ____ is a new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land. |
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Presidios |
Spanish soldiers lived in walled forts called ____. |
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Courier de bois |
French fur trappers who learned many skills from the American Indians with whom they worked and lived were known as ____. |
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Starving time |
The time when people in jamestown ate dogs rats and even humabn corpses was known as ____. |
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Northwest passage |
French explorers Cartier and de las LA salla and Netherlands explorer Hudson set out to discover a new route to Asia through north america was know as the ____. |
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Mercantilism |
An ecosystem policy in which natojs tried to gian wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies in known as ____. |
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Cash crops |
A crop such as tobacco, sugar, and Cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit is called a ____. |
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Charter |
A ____ is a formal document issused by the king that outlined a colonies geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed. |
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Mayflower compact |
Was an agreement that the pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas. |
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Slave trade |
The business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves is known as the ____. |
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Middle passage |
The ocean crossing of slaves is know as the ____. |
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Rights |
Powers or privileges that belong to people as citizens and that cannot or should not be taken away by the government is known as ____. |
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Magna carta |
___ or great charter an agreement masde in 1215 listing the rugts grsntef by Koknv Jojhn to free men of the kingdom. The agreement established the idae that the pwrr of the monarch or the ruler was limited. Not even the king was above the law. |
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Parliament |
The lawmaking body of England, consisting of people from thought out the kingdom is known as ____. It was the lawmaking body with the power to approve laws purpose by the king or queen. |
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Glorious revolution |
When he king was overthrown for trying to reuke without parliament is called ____. |
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English bill of rights |
____ is an act passe by the parliament in 1689 that limited the monarchs power and listed the people's specific rights |
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Great awakening |
____ was the revival of religious beliefs throughout the colonies |
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English citizens |
Colonist saw themselves as____. |
