Key Terms
An area where people share a similar culture and language.
What is a Cultural Region?
The main reason the first Americans migrated from Asia to the Americas.
What is in search of food?
The primary motivation behind European exploration.
What is the desire for profit or finding new trade routes?
The name of New Netherland after the English took it over.
What is New York?
Rights expected by English colonists in America.
What are the same rights as English citizens?
Moving from one place to establish a home in a new one, often involving many people.
What is Migration?
How scientists believe people migrated to the Americas during the Ice Age.
What is by crossing a land bridge?
The goal of the first European explorers to the Americas.
What is to find a water route to Asia?
This colony was intended as a haven for English debtors.
What is Georgia?
An important tradition from England that was adopted in the 13 colonies.
What is self-government?
A settlement governed by a country in another land.
What is a Colony?
The strongest factor influencing American Indian home designs.
What is climate?
The main impact of Christopher Columbus’s voyages on the Americas.
What is the transfer of foods between Europe and the Americas?
This factor made the Southern colonies unique.
What is tobacco plantations?
The effect of the Magna Carta on England.
What is limiting the king's power?
A formal document outlining a colony’s boundaries and government, issued by the king.
What is a Charter?
The main reason different cultural regions formed in North America.
What is adaptation to different environments?
The experience faced by the first colonists in Jamestown.
What is being challenged by the environment?
The type of environment found in the New England colonies.
What are harsh winters and rocky, hilly land?
How the establishment of Parliament benefited English citizens.
What is by allowing representatives of the citizens to make laws?
An economic policy where nations gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies.
What is Mercantilism?
DAILY DOUBLE:
These people helped fight alongside the French in the namesake war leading into the American Revolution, against the British.
Who are the Indians?
DAILY DOUBLE
This colony went missing shortly after their settlement was established off the coast of the Carolinas.
What is Roanoke?
The colony known for its freedom for settlers.
What is Pennsylvania?
The main idea encouraged by the Great Awakening that prepared colonists for the American Revolution.
What is liberty, equality, and self-reliance?