Native American Nations
The Southwest people who built complex, multi-story adobe villages on the side of cliffs?
What is the Pueblo?
This Italian explorer's 1492 voyage to the Caribbean sparked widespread European exploration of the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This term describes the widespread transfer of plants, animals, diseases, culture, and ideas between the Old World and the Americas after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Spanish explorer searched Florida for the legendary Fountain of Youth.
Who is Ponce de León?
This term describes the brutal, months-long sea voyage that carried enslaved Africans from West Africa to the West Indies.
What is the Middle Passage?
This confederacy of Northeastern Native American nations that was governed by an oral constitution called the Great Law of Peace.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy
This Italian, sailing on behalf of English investors, made the first English claim to North America in 1497.
Who is John Cabot?
This disease, to which Native Americans had no immunity, killed more than half the population in many areas.
What is smallpox?
The Spanish explorer was responsible for the death of millions of Aztecs and was created with conquering them
Who is Hernán Cortés
This European country led the way in replacing enslaved Europeans with enslaved Africans on sugar plantations.
What is Portugal?
Eastern Woodlands tribes used this traditional shell bead for storytelling, ceremonial gifts, and recording treaties.
What is wampum?
This Viking explorer established a settlement at Vinland on the tip of Newfoundland, centuries before Columbus.
Who is Leif Erikson?
This transatlantic trade network connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas, exchanging resources, goods, and enslaved people
What is the Triangular Trade?
This conquistador was the first European to see the Grand Canyon while searching for the 7 cities of gold.
Who is Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
The Spanish first brought enslaved Africans to the Americas in this year.
What is 1518?
This was the name of the Native American tribe that settled along the Mississippi River, that built mound structures for various purposes
Sailing for France, this explorer mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and claimed Canada for France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This economic theory holds that a nation grows powerful by exporting more than it imports and accumulating gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
This explorer crossed the Isthmus of Panama and became the first European to reach the Pacific from the New World
Who is Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Roughly this many Africans were shipped to the Americas and enslaved between 1500 and 1800
What is 10 million?
The largest Native American tribe in the Southeast region before European exploration
Who are the Cherokee
Searching for a Northeast Passage to China, this explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River and bay near modern New York while sailing for the Dutch East India Company
Who is Henry Hudson?
This Spanish colonial labor system forced Native Americans to work on European-owned land.
What is the encomienda system?
In the Spanish colonial class system, this was the largest class — people of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.
What are mestizos?
Percentage of African American Slaves were sent to Brazil and the Caribbean Islands
What is 90%