History Skills
Columbus Background
Columbus Consequences
Immigration
Potpourri
100

This type of source is written after the event occurred by someone not there.

Secondary source

100

Original destination for Columbus' voyage

India

100
The two requirements made by the King and Queen to finance Columbus

1) Claim land for Spain

2) Convert people to Christianity

100

Name of group of people who immigrated to what is now the U.S.

Separatists/Pilgrims

100

Native American woman whose story was changed by John Smith

Pocahontas/Matoaka

200

This type of source is written immediately after event by someone who was there.

Primary Source

200

Name of people who sponsored Columbus' expedition

King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella

200
Metal that the Spanish looked for in the New World

Gold

200

The vocabulary word that means "dislike of our prejudice against people from other countries"

Xenophobia

200
First successful colony in North America (U.S.)

Jamestown

300

Information used from a document to support someone's claim or opinion

Evidence

300

Columbus's birthplace

Genoa, Italy

300

Name of the trading happened due to Columbus' arrival

Columbian Exchange

300

Continent that majority of immigrants came from

Europe

300

The people resorted to this after a period of starvation

Cannibalism

400

A person, thing, or source that can be trustworthy

Reliable

400

Year Columbus set sailed

1492

400

Name of disease that killed majority of indigenous people

Smallpox

400
The location of The New Colossus poem

Statue of Liberty

400

Name of the friar that denounced the acts of the Spanish to Prince Philip

Bartolome de las Casas

500

Favoring one thing, person, or group; usually in an unfair way

Bias

500

Name of Columbus' ships

Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria

500

Columbus' plan for the indigenous people (3 details)

To enslave, take land, and convert to Christianity

500

Reason why the Irish came to the U.S. during the 1800s

Famine due to the destruction of the potato crop
500

President that made Columbus Day a national holiday

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt


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