Early No. America
Early Exploration
Native Americans
Early Colonies
Early Economy
100
Some historians believe that the first people on the North American continent came here in the Ice Age across this.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
100
They are early exploration tools.
What are the compass and astrolabe?
100
These are three important characteristics of Native American cultures.
What are community, close ties with nature, and religious traditions?
100
It was the first document in the colonies to establish rules for a fair society.
What is The Mayflower Compact.
100
The way in which goods and services are produced and distributed in a community.
What is an economy?
200
Some of them might include forests, water, fish, mountains and trees.
What are Natural Resources?
200
European explorers traveled across this body of water to get to the New World.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
It was the widespread effect of the expansion of the European empires into the New World.
What is the destruction of Native Cultures?
200
In order to practice freedom of religion.
What is the main reason the Pilgrims traveled to the New World?
200
An economic system that stresses increasing national wealth by selling more than buying in its foreign trade.
What is a Mercantile System?
300
It is when people first practiced agriculture.
What is when they settled in one area in order to grow crops for food?
300
The transfer of peoples, animals, plants and disease between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
Corn and turkeys
What are things the New World gave to the Old World?
300
Because they were expressing different ideas and beliefs.
What is the reason the strict Puritans banished dissenters from their colony?
300
A large land area controlled by a single ruler or group.
What is an empire?
400
Early explorers thought that when they sailed east, they found the Indies. But they actually found this.
What is North America?
400
Spanish soldiers who conquered native civilizations in the New World.
What are conquistadors?
400
Yellow Fever and the Common Cold
What are things the Old World brought to the New World?
400
A distant land that is governed by another government.
What is a colony?
400
A person who agrees to work for another until a debt is paid off.
What is an indendured servant?
500
Early settlers made it all the way to South America this way.
What is by walking?
500
He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellin?
500
It was a casualty of European expansion.
What is Native American culture?
500
It is when you grow only enough crops to meet the needs of one household.
What is Subsistence Farming?
500
An official document in which rights are given by a government to a person or company.
What is a charter?
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