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What were dome houses made from blocks of snow in early Northern cultures?
Igloos
Who were the English Protestants who rejected England's established church?
Pilgrims
Why did Robert de La Salle give Louisiana its name?
After French King Louis XIV
What was a trade route with 3 legs linking North America, Africa, and the West Indies?
Triangular Trade
What is similar to wigwam but rectangular, and each was home to several branches of an extended family?
Longhouse
The place where the first people in the Americas come from
Asia
Items that were made from animal bones, skin, and stomachs in The Great Plains region
Tools, Clothes, Cooking Pots
Since they spoke many different languages, how did people of the western cultures trade?
Sign Language
How long ago did the first people arrive in the Americas?
Between 25,000-14,000 years
How did the first people get to the Americas?
Bering Land Bridge (Beringia)
What was a home formed by bending the trunks of young trees and tying them together to make a round frame?
WigWam
What was a ceremony in which a high-ranking family hosts a feast and gives gifts to their guests?
Potlatch
Between 1500 and 1870, around how many Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas?
9-11 Million
What was a major crop grown in the Western Cultures (at least 2)
Squash, Corn, Beans, Sunflowers, Tobacco
The sailing route from Africa to the Americas where enslaved Africans were forced aboard ships and chained together?
Middle Passage
The name "pueblo" came from the Spanish word meaning what?
Village
Where did Christopher Columbus land in 1492?
West Indies
What 2 places did the Bering Land Bridge connect?
Siberia-Alaska
Which region was a vast grassland that stretched across central North America?
The Great Plains
What is a structure made from a tree, carved & painted to relate important events and individuals in a family’s history?
Totem Pole
What was the main threat to Native Americans once the Europeans came to the Americas?
Disease
In 1565, where did the Spanish build the first European settlement?
Florida
During the 1500s, France sponsored explorers to come to the Americas to search for what?
NorthWest Passage
Where was the first permanent European settlement in Canada founded?
Quebec
What area did most of the subarctic culture cover?
Alaska and Canada