First Americans
American Indian Cultural Regions
Explorers
First Three Settlements
13 Colonies
100
This is what the first Americans were following when they crossed the land bridge.
What is big game?
100
This animal was used for food, clothing, shelter, and tools by the Western Sioux of the Great Plains.
What is the buffalo?
100
Explorers killed 90% of Native Americans using these.
What are diseases?
100
The first settlement of Roanoke failed because the settlers did not bring any of these.
What are farmers?
100
These regions were great for farming.
What are the Southern and Middle colonies?
200
This includes landforms, natural resources, plants, animals, and climate.
What is natural environment?
200
The Seminoles in Florida wore deer hide leggings to protect their legs from this.
What is razor sharp grass?
200
Explorers planted these to show they claimed land.
What are flags?
200
This was a plan of government made by the Pilgrims and other settlers of Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
New England was perfect to this economic activity because of its many forests and long coastline.
What is shipbuilding?
300
Most American Indians tried to settle in places with rich these.
What are natural resources?
300
This region built totem poles outside of their homes.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
300
This supposedly went through North America to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
These are people who go on a religious journey.
Who are pilgrims?
300
This type of people settled in the Southern Colonies to make money off of farming cash crops on plantations.
What are wealthy Englishmen?
400
This is the CONTINENT that the first Americans came from.
What is Asia?
400
The American Indians of the Southwest used this natural resources to build their homes and make tools like pots.
What is clay?
400
Ponce de Leon was looking for this.
What is the Fountain of Youth?
400
This man told the Jamestown settlers, "If you don't work, you don't eat."
Who is John Smith?
400
Farmers did not settle in this region because of its rocky and thin soil.
What is New England?
500
These are the two CONTINENTS the first Americans settled in.
What are North America and South America?
500
The tribes of the Plateau region built their homes here to stay warm in the winter.
What is underground?
500
This explorer conquered the Aztecs after they welcomed him into their city because they mistook him for one of their gods.
Who is Cortes?
500
This was the governing body of the Jamestown settlement.
What is the House of Burgesses?
500
This region was very diverse.
What is the Middle Colonies?