Flashcards
World History: Pioneers
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- 1Two generations after the ________, 150,000 settlers cling to the edge of a vast _________.Mayflower
wildnerness - 2How long have the Puritans been in New England?30 years
- 3How long have the Wabenaki been in New England?12,000 years
- 4How many hunter-gathers live across the planet in the 17th century?55 million
- 5In the New World, Native Americans out number settlers by nearly __ to __. It's _______.6 to 1
war - 6What Lewis child survives the Wabenaki attack?Mercy Lewis
- 71692, Salem, _____. A community in meltdown. ____ year-old Martha Corey. Devout Christian and church goer, on trial for her ______.MA
65
life - 8Mercy Lewis, and ___ other women and girls, claim Corey is a _______. Haunting their ________, hurting them without touching them. ________ testifies.9
witch
dreams
Mercy - 9What religious group do the people of Salem belong to?Puritans
- 10True or False. The Puritans blame God for famine, disease and conflict.False
- 11How many are put to death in the 300-year-long witch hunting frenzy of the West?45,000
- 12Five people in _______ have already been accused. Now it is Martha Corey's word against her ___________ accusers. Martha's only hope is that the _______ will see through the girls' hysteria.Salem
teenage
judge - 13In Salem, over ____ people are accused of witchcraft, among them, a four-year-old girl. _____ executions. _____ years later, one teenager withdraws her testimony, claiming to have been deceived by _________.100
20
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Satan - 14What happens to Martha Corey?shes hanged
- 15True or False. Salem is among the last of the mass witch hunts.True
- 16Now the hunt for _________ is opening up the wilderness, beckoning a new breed of ________ in search of the earth's natural ________. Hunters, frontiersmen.profit
pioneer
resources - 17How much larger than the U.S.A. is Siberia?1.5 times
- 18What commodity will reshape the world?fur
- 19True or False. In the early 1700's the earth was experiencing a mini heat wave with the hottest temperatures in 10,000 years.False (ice age)
- 20Who were the Evenki?hunter-gathers
- 21What are the Evenki arrow tips made out of?reindeer antler
- 22What gives pioneers the edge over ancient cultures?the gun
- 23Invented in _______. Developed in Europe. Now, being mass-produced using _____ _____, production skyrockets 10,000%.China
cast iron - 24How much faster is the muzzle velocity of a gun than the velocity of an arrow?7 times
- 25The wildnerness is being _______. Hunter-gathers displaced. A conflict playing out across the ________.tamed
planet - 26True or False. The fur trade opens up Russia and the North American wildnerness.True
- 27What new commercial captial is created because of the fur trade?New York
- 28True or False. Only one in five ships transporting the natural resources of the New World make it safely to Europe.False
- 29Sailors navigate by measuring the angles bewtween the ______ and the stars and comparing them with ______ charts, but these charts are basic and inaccurate.moon
star - 30One man will transform __________: astronomer to the English King, John Flamsteed. He'll unlock the keys to _______ trade and exploration by buliding his mural arc.navigation
global - 31For ___ months, Flamsteed has been building his mural arc, a __________ moved by a precision gearing system that measures the _______ of the stars in the night sky.14
telescope
angle - 32In today's money, how much does Flamsteed personally spend to bring his dream to life?250,000 (1/4 million)
- 33Flamsteed gives each _____ a unique marker. 28,000 measurements recording their exact positon, tripling the number of known start to nearly ________. The greatest breakthrough in navigation since the ________.star
3,000
compass - 34How much more accurate is the star chart than before?15 times
- 35Who was mankind's greatest explorer?Captain James Cook
- 36What was the name of Cook's ship?the Endeavour
- 37What ocean do they cross?Pacific
- 38What continent do Cook and his crew discover?Australia
- 39How long ago did the Aborigine's settle this continent?50,000 years ago
- 40True or False. The Aborigine's have the oldest living culture in the world.True
- 41Who does Cook claim the land for?British Empire
- 42Cook and his crew discover an __________ like no other. The biggest _______ on earth. A continent with its ______ unique evolution. _______ of its mammals found nowhere else on earth.ecosystem
island
own
85% - 43What man recorded all of the mammals and plants found in Australia?Joseph Banks
- 44How many plants does he collect on the expedition?over 30,000
- 45What was so special about the cargo the Endeavour carried back to Britain?animals and plants unknown to science
- 46What happens to the Endeavour five weeks into the voyage?hits a reef and begins to sink
- 47As the men try to lighten the ship and refloat her, what is the only thing they wont throw overboard?scientific samples
- 48What is below Cook's ship?The Great Barrier Reef
- 49Over ____ epic voyages, Cook maps Australia, ____ __________, the Pacific Ocean, and the Americas. More of the ________ than any other explorer.3
New Zealand
world - 50Over ____ epic voyages, Cook maps Australia, ____ __________, the Pacific Ocean, and the Americas. More of the ________ than any other explorer.3
New Zealand
world - 51What man is bringing the Scientific Revolution to America?Benjamin Franklin
- 52What destructive force of nature had mankind lived in fear of since the dawn of time?lightning
- 53True or False. A lightning strike is a powerful as a ton of TNT and is five times hotter than the sun.True
- 54Franklin believes lightning is a form of what?electricity
- 55What does Franklin use to test his theory?a kite with a metal wire at the top and a metal key at the base
- 56From clouds, _______ electricity. The first ______ that lightning is electricity.static
proof - 57What invention comes out of Franklin's discovery?the lightning rod
- 58An isolated rebellion in a New England ____________ will erupt into war.lumberyard
- 59True or False. Ebenezer Mudgett made his fortune from wood.True
- 60What is the American settler's greatest source of profit?forest
- 61A third of all British _______ are built in New England. One war ship uses ________ trees and costs the equivalent of a modern _________ carrier.ships
6,000
aircraft - 62In Boston, there is ____ British redcoat for every ____ citizens.1
4 - 63What do colonists protest against?heavy taxes
- 64What face off with British soldiers kills five civilians?The Boston Massacre
- 65True or False. Mudgett supports the fact that the biggest trees are set aside for British ships by law.False
- 66Sheriff Benjamin Whiting charges Mudgett with doing what?stealing the king's wood
- 67True or False. The Pine Tree Riot was an event in which Mudgett and his men attacked Sheriff Whiting and Deputy Quigley by striking them one time for every tree Mudgett was charged with stealing.True
- 68A year later in _______, Rebels destroy one million dollars' worth of ____, one of the most famous acts of resistance in American history.Boston
tea - 69What war begins in Lexington in 1775?The Revolutionary War/The American Revolution/The War of Independence
- 70In 1776 in Philadelphia, what does the Second Continental Congress vote to adopt?The Declaration of Independence
- 71Who edited this document?Benjamin Franklin
- 72In less than two centuries, mankind has opened up the __________ and mapped the planet, prospering from its natural __________. The Scientific Revolution has given rise to the ________ world.wilderness
resources
modern