Early American Civilizations
People constantly on the move as they search for wild plants to pick and wild animals to hunt.
What are nomads?
The region of the world many Europeans explorers were attempting to reach as they desired new wealthy trade routes.
What is Asia?
Created in 1607, this was the first permanent English colony in America.
What was Jamestown?
The region of the world where many slaves were taken from before coming to the New World.
What is Africa?
The Indian girl who was kidnapped by the English, later married John Rolfe, traveled to England, and met King James I.
Who was Pocahontas?
This Mesoamerican group were known as the “rubber people”.
Who were the Olmecs?
The king and queen of Spain who financed Christopher Columbus’s journey west.
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?
This colony is known as the “Lost Colony” because all of the colonists disappeared without leaving behind any evidence.
What is Roanoke Colony?
Those who agreed to work for seven years in exchange for being brought to the colonies.
What are indentured servants?
The only religious group allowed to settle in the French colonies.
Who are Roman Catholics?
The belief that all natural objects have souls.
What is animism?
This French explorer is known as “the Father of New France” and laid the foundations for the city of Quebec.
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
The primary and most profitable “cash crop” of Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
A trade route between Africa and the Americas that many slaves were forced to travel.
What was the Middle Passage?
Indians from this region were often known as “cliff dwellers” because of the elaborate houses they constructed in the sides of cliffs.
What is the Southwest region?
This group of American Indians are believed to have had the largest cities in North America prior to European arrival.
Who were the Mound Builders?
While today it is known as Newfoundland, this is the original name given to this region by the Norseman Leif Ericson, the first European to land in the New World.
What was Vinland?
Because of this event in 1588, Spain’s power and influence declined preventing them from colonizing all of America.
What was the Spanish Armada?
This created a market for slaves to be brought from Africa to America and be forced to work.
What was the growing demand for cheap labor?
The date that Christopher Columbus landed in the New World.
What is October 12, 1492?
The capital city of the Aztec Empire, it was destroyed by Cortes and replaced by Mexico City.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The first European to explore what is modern-day Florida.
Who was Ponce de Leon?
This was the first representative assembly in America and became a model for other colonies and eventually the form of America’s government.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The types of places that many African slaves were forced to work on as they farmed cash crops for their slave masters.
What is a plantation?
The only allowed denomination (type of church) in England. All who disagreed with it were persecuted causing some to want to come to the New World.
What is the Anglican Church (Church of England)?