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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