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Native Americans
The Colonies
Misc.
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This is the place (city and state) where over 20 people were killed after being deemed guilty of witchcraft.

Salem Massachusetts 

100

This is the year of Columbus' first expedition to the new world.

1492

100

This animal was the staple of many Plains Indian Tribes. There are well over 100 uses for the animal once it has been processed

Buffalo 
100

This was the first English colony. It did not end well for the settlers. 

Roanoke 

100

This term means prejudice or favor towards one thing over another. 

Bias

200

A means of communication that is meant to persuade an audience toward something. Often times through emotions.

Propaganda

200

These are the Spanish or Portuguese soldiers who explored the new world. 

Conquistadors 

200

The major mountain range that runs along the Eastern and North Eastern United States 

The Appalachian Mountain Range

200

These people colonized Massachusettes 

The Puritains 

200
This river runs from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to its exit point at the Gulf of Mexico. 

Colorado River


300

The process of occupying a land with settlers to suck out the economic potential. 

Colonialism 

300

This is the time period, started by the Spanish, that involves people from Europe sailing to the New World in search of new land and resources.    

The Age of Exploration 

Age of Discovery 

Exploration 

300

This is the piece of land that many scientists believe is the way humans were able to reach the American Continents 10,000 years ago. 

Bering Strait 

300

These are the three Colonial Regions 

New England

Middle 

Southern 

300

These are three cash-crops grown in the Southern Colonies 

Tobacco

Cotton

Indigo 

Sugar

Rice

400

A land in which the ruler is a king or queen. 

Monarchy 

400

The three G's of exploration

God

Gold 

Glory

400

In class, we discussed these four advantages of  Conquistadors over Native Americans.

Guns 

Steel (Weapons and Armor)

Horses

Resistance to most Diseases

400

This document was the first to establish self governance in the new world. 

The Mayflower Compact 

400

The form of slavery practiced in America 

Chattel Slavery 

500

This word means to be ruled by a priest or by religious law

Theocracy 

500
They were the monarchs who paid for Columbus' expeditions. 

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella 

500

The Native American cultural area that encompasses modern day Utah, Nevada, and parts of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. 

The Great Basin

500

This was the name of the trading system between Europe, Africa, and America 

Triangular Trade

500

An agreement made between two people in which one agrees to work for the other for a set period of time without pay. 

Indentured Servitude 

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