In this unit, students will learn about the events and happenings that have shaped the American culture from prehistoric times to 1783 (the moment after the American Revolution). Focus will be placed on the Native Americans, the Europeans who colonized their land as well as life and political events before the American Revolution. There will be homework on every section and a quiz at the end of each chapter. Also included is a test at the end of the unit.

 The following is a list of terms you will need to know and understand

· Olmec                                indentured servant                    George Grenville
· Maya                                 royal colony                                Sugar Act
· Aztec                                 Nathaniel Bacon                        Stamp Act
· Inca                                   John Winthrop                           Samuel Adams
· Hohokam                          Puritan                                       Townshend Acts
· Anazazi                            separatist                                    Boston Massacre
· Adena                               Mass. Bay Colony                       cmte. Of correspondence
· Hopewell                          Roger Williams                           Boston Tea Party
· Mississippian                  Anne Hutchinson                        King George III
· Kashaya Pomo                Pequot War                                 Intolerable Acts
· Kwakiutl                         Metacom                                      martial law
· Pueblo                              King Philip’s War                      2nd Continental Congress
· Iroquois                            William Penn                            Olive Branch Petition
· Kinship                            New Netherland                        Common Sense
· Division of labor             proprietor                                    Thomas Jefferson
· Savanna                          Quaker                                        Decl. Of Independence
· Plantation                       mercantilism                               Patriot
· Lineage                            balance of trade                          Loyalist
· Prince Henry                   Parliament                                 Trenton
· Hierarchy                        Navigation Acts                          Saratoga
· Nuclear family               Dominion of New England          Valley Forge
· Joint-stock                      Sir Edmund Andros                     inflation
· Christopher Columbus   Glorious Revolution                    profiteering
· Colonization                   salutary neglect                           von Steuben
· Columbian Exchange     cash crop                                      Lafayette
· Treaty of Tordesillas      triangular trade                           Cornwallis
· Conquistador                  middle passage                            Yorktown
· Hernando Cortes           Stono Rebellion                            Treaty of Paris
· Mestizo                          Enlightenment                             egalitarianism
· Encomienda                   Benjamin Franklin
· Juan Ponce de Leon      Jonathan Edwards
· Congregacion                Great Awakening
· Pope                               George Washington
· John Smith                   French & Indian War
· Jamestown                   William Pitt
· Powhatan                      Pontiac
· Headright system        Proclamation of 1763

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