Social Studies Praxis 5007

Effective ways to teach chronology:

• timelines

• storyboards

• sequential representations

Most of the time, the correct answer will be the one that uses both _________ and ______________.

Primary, secondary sources

Middle Passage

The trip from Africa to the Americas.

Results of the Age of Exploration:

• more knowledge about the Americas

• Increased European wealth because of new trade

• decline of Ottoman Empire

• Mapping improved with use of invention of the compass

• new foods, plants, and animals were exchanged between the Americas and Europe

• Europeans decimated the indigenous population with disease and massacres

• The massive amount of work led to the 300 year slave trade

Stamp Act

Tax put on the American colonies by the British in 1765.

Townshend Acts

A series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1767. Taxed goods imported to the American colonies.

Sons of Liberty

A secret organization created in the 13 American Colonies to advance the rights of the colonists and fight taxation by the British government.

Articles of Confederation

Adopted in 1781, this system established a loose alliance among the states within a weak central government that had limited powers.

Constitutional Convention

In 1787, delegates from the states convened in Philadelphia to draft a new constitution. The result was the US Constitution which established the framework for the federal government and outlined the separation of powers.