AHSGE ReviewSocial Studies

Standard I:The student will understand the global influence of the

pre-colonial and colonial eras of the Western Hemisphere

1.What European movement resulted in exposure to Middle Eastern and Asian goods after a failed attempt to take away the Holy Lands from Muslims?~ Crusades

2. What European movement resulted in new art, technology, and a return to Classical learning?

~ Renaissance

3. What European movement resulted

in the rise of the protestant religion (it

started as conflict within the Catholic Church)?

~ Reformation

4. What terms are used to describe the exchange of goods between Europe and the Americas after Columbus’s discovery?

~ Columbian Exchange

5. What were the Spanish explorers called who searched for “God, gold and glory”?

~ Conquistadors

6. What was the name of the first European settlement in America (it was Spanish)?

~ St. Augustine, 1565

7. What was the first successful English settlement in the New World (1607)?

~ Jamestown

8. What was the legislature of the Virginia colony called (the first representative government in the New World)?

~ House of Burgesses

What did Benjamin Franklin suggest to the leaders of the colonies in 1754 at the Albany Conference?

• The Albany Plan of Union = form a federal government to use if need be against the British Parliament

9. What was the main reason for protest by American colonists against British rule?

~ Taxation without representation

10. What war put the English into debt and forced them to tax their colonies in America?

~ French and Indian War (settled with the Treaty of Paris, 1763)

11. What acts were enforced by the English that forced the colonies to only trade with Britain?(1760’s)

~ Navigation Acts

12. What occurred in 1770 that resulted in 5 colonists being shot and killed by British troops in Boston?

~ Boston Massacre

13. In 1773 Bostonians protested the Tea Act by staging what famous event?

~ Boston Tea Party

What was the pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in February,1776, that justified and encouraged American colonist to seek their independence from England?

• Common Sense

14. The first skirmishes of the Revolutionary War occurred in what two towns?

~ Lexington and Concord

What was the 3 way trade called that existed between the English Colonies, Africa, and the West Indies?

• Triangular Trade

• What was the product that was exported out of New England as a part of Triangular Trade?

• Rum