Early Humans
The group of Native Americans that came and hunted using distinct flint spear tips.
Who are the Clovis people?
The main motivations for European exploration.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
Year in which Jamestown was founded.
What is 1607?
Cash crops grown in the Southern Colonies.
What are tobacco, rice, and indigo?
Farm crop raised to be sold for money
What is cash crop?
Type of archaeology used to discover the human skeletons in Mexico.
What is underwater cave exploration?
Religion that was spread by the Spanish to Native Americans?
What is Catholicism?
Document created by the Pilgrims coming to Plymouth Rock to establish their government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Region of colonies that included most of the larger cities.
What are the New England & Middle Colonies.
Laborer who agreed to work for a time in exchange for passage to America
What is indentured servant?
A theory stating that some early Native Americans came by boat.
What is the Coastal Migration Theory.
Explorer that first "discovered" the new lands in the Americas?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Religion of the Pilgrims.
What is Puritan?
Reason why most of the larger cities were located in the north.
What is trade, manufacturing, and ports?
Legislative group in Virginia
What is House of Burgesses?
A large animal that Native Americans would hunt.
What is a mammoth?
The original name of New York City?
What is New Amsterdam?
Name the regional divisions of the colonies.
What are the Southern, Middle, and New England Colonies?
Region in which whaling and fishing were most prominent.
What are the New England colonies?
The route between Africa and West Indies, in which African slaves were transported.
What is Middle Passage?
Type of lifestyle that involves moving around a lot.
What is nomadic?
Approximately how many explorers were there on the website that you could have picked to study?
What is around 20?
The most diverse region of the colonies.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Three European countries who owned most of the land in North America during colonial times.
What are England, France, and Spain?
New settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land
What is colony?