First Peoples of North America
This type of dwelling, made from animal hides, was used by many Plains tribes.
What is a tipi?
He was the first European to sail to the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This colony, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement.
What is Jamestown?
This 1621 event symbolized early cooperation between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.
What is the First Thanksgiving?
This war left Britain in debt, leading to taxes on the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was the main source of food, clothing, and tools for the Plains tribes.
What is the buffalo (or bison)?
This exchange of crops, animals, and disease reshaped the world after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This cash crop helped Virginia thrive and made plantation slavery profitable.
What is tobacco?
This economic system often led to tension between European settlers and Native Americans, as colonists competed for land and resources.
What is mercantilism?
This law banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This major Native American confederacy united five (later six) tribes in New York.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This English explorer helped map the Virginia coastline and played a key leadership role in the survival of Jamestown.
Who is John Smith?
New England colonists held these meetings to govern towns democratically.
What are town meetings?
This Dutch colony often traded peacefully with Native Americans but also experienced violent conflict, such as Kieft’s War in the 1640s.
What is New Netherland?
Colonists used this method to protest British taxes without violence.
What is a boycott?
Native American societies adapted to their environments by doing this, whether through farming, hunting, or fishing.
What is adapting to their environment?
This Spanish system allowed colonists to demand labor from Native people.
What is the encomienda system?
This labor system used contracts to bring workers to the colonies in exchange for passage.
What is indentured servitude?
This conflict between frontiersmen and Native Americans showed tensions with colonial elites.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This 1770 event involved British soldiers killing five colonists during a protest.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This Arctic indigenous group relied on hunting whales, seals, and caribou for survival.
Who are the Inuit?
Who are the Inuit?
This Spanish explorer led the first recorded European expedition into what is now the United States, landing in present-day Florida in 1513 while searching for the Fountain of Youth.
Who is Juan Ponce de León?
This 1692 event showed the dangers of mass hysteria and religious extremism.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
He helped the Jamestown colony survive and famously said, “He who does not work shall not eat.”
Who is John Smith?
This 1774 meeting of colonial delegates was held in response to the Intolerable Acts and marked a unified colonial protest against British rule.
What is the First Continental Congress?