Map Skills
What is a Compass Rose?
displaying the orientation of the cardinal directions.
North, South, East, West
What country did Christopher Columbus Represent?
The Spanish
Jamestown is a city in which present day state?
Virginia
What do you call the first inhabitants of North America?
Indigenous or Native Americans
What is an indentured Servant
a form of labor where people agreed to work for a set number of years without pay in exchange for transportation, food, clothing, and shelter.
What is a map key?
A tool that helps readers understand the symbols, colors, and lines on a map
What present day country did the Aztec live?
Mexico
The Transatlantic slave trade involved what 3 continents?
Europe, Africa and North America/Caribbean
What is the name of the traditional homes used by the Plains tribes, made from wooden poles and covered with animal hides?
Which settlement was responsible for the first thanksgiving?
What is the Equator?
An imaginary line that divides a planet or other celestial body into a northern and southern hemisphere
What was the Theory that explains the traveling from Asia to America (Alaska)?
Land Bridge Theory
Plymouth or (Boston) is in what present day state
Massachusetts
Which type of crops were commonly grown using enslaved labor in the Americas and Caribbean ?
Sugar, Tobacco, and Cotton
What is the Prime Meridian
a line of longitude that defines 0° longitude and divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
What is Longitude?
Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east–west position of a point on the surface of the Earth
What present day state did the Iroquois live in?
New York
What was the reason for the settlers in the Jamestown Colony?
What was Columbus's original goal when he set out on his voyage?
Name the 7 continents
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What is Latitude?
latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth
Name three countries that the Taino's inhabited.
Puerto Rico, Haití, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica etc
Name one state from each colony *Middle, South and New England*
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What year did Christopher Columbus first set sail on his journey across the Atlantic?
1492
What were the names of the three ships used by Columbus on his first voyage?
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria