Middle Passage
Columbian Exchange
The Age of Exploration
Native Americans
Early Americans
100
A person that is owned as property and forced to do labor against his will.
What is a slave?
100
The first person to exchange goods with the Native Americans all the way back in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
The place in the New World that Columbus first landed in.
What is the Bahamas?
100
A Native American tent/house made with leather and sticks.
What is a tepee?
100
The Early American's originally came from this continent.
What is Asia?
200
The Middle Passage brought captured Africans to the America's by crossing this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
This crop was super important to Ireland. When the crop had a disease in the 1840's, it caused a famine.
What is a potato?
200
The group of people that Columbus enslaved, tortured, and killed.
What is the Taino?
200
A small boat made out of wood.
What is a canoe?
200
The First American's arrived in the America's by crossing this natural bridge.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
300
This number of Africans that were captured and transported to the Americas.
What is 10 million?
300
The introduction of this animal to the New World allowed for the Native Americans to hunt better and to move around quicker.
What is a horse?
300
The 3 G's that was the motivation for exploration.
What is Gold, God, and Glory?
300
The leader of a Native American tribe.
What is a chief?
300
The migration of the First American's took place this many years ago.
What is 10,000-12,000 years ago?
400
A person that signs a contract to work. After a set amount of time, they are given freedom.
What is an indentured servant?
400
There is evidence to show that the Europeans purposely infected this item with diseases when trading with the Native Americans.
What are blankets?
400
The country that Columbus believed he arrived in when he stumbled upon the New World.
What is India?
400
A very important crop to the Native American's is called maize. What is another name for maize?
What is corn?
400
The First American's arrived in the America's at the end of this time period.
What is "Ice Age"?
500
Slave labor was needed in the America's for this reason.
What is to work the farms/plantations?
500
This disease was the main reason for the death of many Native Americans.
What is smallpox?
500
This country became extremely powerful and rich because it was one of the first countries to explore and colonize.
What is Portugal?
500
People that relied on killing animals and searching for fruits and berries for food.
What are hunters and gatherers?
500
A person that goes from place to place in search of food.
What is a nomad?
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