US History Unit 1

Match the following terms with best definition

• People who built an empire in Mexico, beginning in the 1200s

• Aztecs

• Native Americans of the Southwest, about AD 100 to 1300

• Anasazi

• Native American group in Eastern North America

• Pueblo

• Native American group in the Southwest

• Iroquois

The first humans to come to the Americas from Asia were __ people, moving from place to place

Around 800 BC, people living in __ began to farm. As farming spread, people could stay in one place.

Answer with the best description

1) ​ (a)   : African kingdom around the Niger River known for metal working

2) ​ (b)   : Small kingdoms on the lower Congo River united under one ruler

3) ​ ​ (c)   : religion founded by Muhammad in the 600s; many West African leaders converted to it

• Benin
• Kongo
• Islam

​ (a)   : Spanish system of using Native Americans for labor

​ (b)   : Spanish explorer

​ (c)   : Person of mixed Spanish and Native American blood

​ (d)   : Trade across the Atlantic Ocean

• encomienda
• conquistador
• mestizo
• Columbian Exchange

​ (a)   : leader of Jamestown

​ (b)   : member of a religious group known for its strict beliefs

​ (c)   : Leader of the first settlers at Massachusetts Bay Colony

​ (d)   : Founder of the colony of Pennsylvania

​ (e)   : Member of a religious group known for tolerance

• John Smith
• Puritan
• John Winthrop
• William Penn
• Quaker

In Jamestown, the colonists discovered they could sell ​ (a)   in Europe for a big profit. To work on the plantations, they hired ​ (b)   . As the colony grew, the English settlers took ​ (c)   land.

• tobacco
• indentured servants
• Powhatan
• whiskey
• Pueblo

Colonists in the ​ (a)   created a society based on ​ (b)   . The important cash crops were tobacco and ​ (c)   . Some of the workers on the ​ (d)   were enslaved ​ (e)  

• South
• farming
• rice
• plantations
• Africans
• North
• Asians
• oranges

​ (a)   : conducted scientific experiments and made several practical inventions

​ (b)   : helped lead the English to win the French and Indian War

​ (c)   : Ottawa chief that attacked British forts in response to British settlers moving west

​ (d)   : Act which banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Benjamin Franklin
• William Pitt
• Pontiac
• Proclamation of 1763

​ (a)   : English monarch who rejected peace with the Colonists

​ (b)   : main author of the Declaration of Independence

​ (c)   : Leader that had Parliament pass two sets of taxes, the Sugar and Stamp Acts

​ (d)   : English philosopher that believed everyone had the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• King George III
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Grenville
• John Locke