Jeopardy!
Unit 1
(Chapters 1-4)
First
Americans
Early
Cultures of
Civilizations North
America
Exploration First English
Settlement
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FA100
Thick sheets of ice that covered
much of the world between
10,000 and 100,000 years ago.
FA100
What are glaciers?
FA200
Many scientists believe that people
first came to North America by crossing
over this.
FA200
What is a land bridge?
FA300
The idea that the first people to North
America crossed the arctic waters by
boat and traveled southward along
the Pacific coast.
FA300
What is the coastal-route theory?
FA400
A method to water crops by
channeling water from rivers or
streams.
FA400
What is irrigation?
FA500
An advanced culture in which people
have developed cities, science, and
industries.
FA500
What is a civilization?
EC100
This group of people observed the
stars and created the most accurate
calendar known until modern times.
EC100
Who are the Mayas?
EC200
This is the great capital city that the
Aztecs built on the site of present
day 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 up
the 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 towns
by 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 vast
and harsh land, some of it covered
with 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’t
farmers.
C300
What is the Northwest?
C400
C400
The northern part of this region has
forests and grasslands that could be
very cold in the winter and the southern
portion could be desertlike.
C400
What is the Far West?
C500
The earliest people in this region lived
by 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 to
explore and conquer the world unknown
to them.
E200
What are conquistadors?
E300
The Spanish believed they had
a duty to convert Native Americans
to Christianity so they set up these
religious settlements.
E300
What are missions?
E400
The idea that colonies existed to
Make the home country wealthy
And powerful.
E400
What is mercantilism?
E500
This group of people first claimed
land 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 specific
rights to a person or company.
F100
What is a charter?
F200
The first English colonists arrived in Virginia
in 1607, they built a fort that they called this.
F200
What is Jamestown?
F300
F300
With the creation of the House of
Burgesses, Virginia developed a tradition
of representative government which means
this.
F300
What is a form of government in
which voters elect people to make
laws for them?
F400
A person who takes a religious
journey.
F400
What is a pilgrim?
F500
The Pilgrims realized they needed rules
so 41 men signed this which was the
first document in which colonists claimed
a right to govern themselves.
F500
What is the Mayflower Compact?
13 Colonies Governing
the
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Colonial
Society
Slavery
New Ideas
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13200
The Puritans who settled in
Massachusetts Bay did not believe
in 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 itself
by setting up an assembly of townspeople
that 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 owning
male?
131000
The economy in the tidewater
region of the south was dominated
by these large farms.
131000
What are plantations?
G200
The first document to place
restrictions on an English ruler’s
power.
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 that
a government promises to protect.
G600
What is a bill of rights?
G800
G800
The definition of habeas corpus.
G800
What is the principle that a
person cannot be held in prison
without being charged with a
specific crime?
G1000
The case of John Peter Zenger
helped establish this important
right.
G1000
What is the freedom of the press?
CS200
A family that includes, in addition to the
parents and their children, other members
such 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 during
colonial 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 contract
to 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 colonies
the islands of the Caribbean, and Africa.
S200
What is triangular trade?
S400
The voyage across the Atlantic
that transported slaves on slave
ships.
S400
What is the Middle Passage?
S600
Since most English colonists
believed they were superior to
Africans, slavery was linked to
this.
S600
What is racism?
S800
White colonists were nervous
that slaves would band together
and revolt so they wrote strict laws
restricting the rights and activities of
slaves which is known as this.
S800
What are slave codes?
S1000
Planters preferred slaves over
this type of people because they
were temporary, once their term was
up 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 public
schools are funded by taxes only.
NI200
What are private and public
money?
NI400
This began as a reaction against
what some Christians saw as a decline
of religious zeal in the colonies.
NI400
What is the Great Awakening?
NI600
The ideas of these two Enlightenment
thinkers 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 that
can not be taken away. Some include
life, Liberty, and property.
NI800
What are natural rights?
NI1000
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The Methodist and Baptist Church.
NI1000
What are new churches that formed
as a result of the Great Awakening?
In Montesquieu’s book he argued that
the powers of government should be
clearly 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 government
into separate branches. It protects the
rights of the people because it keeps
any individual or group from gaining too
much power.