Geography
A map tool showing direction (North, South, East and West).
What is a Compass /Compass Rose?
Social ordering by rank or class.
What is a hierarchy?
People who built an empire in Mexico, beginning in the 1200s
Who are the Aztec?
Italian explorer who sailed to North America for Spain
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Companies in which investors pooled their wealth with the hope of yielding a profit
What are Joint-Stock companies?
A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
The part of a map that helps you find distance.
What is a Map Scale /Scale?
Household made up of a mother and father and their children
What is a Nuclear family?
People who built an empire along the west coast of South America, beginning in the 1400s
Who are the Inca?
Native Americans who lived where Columbus first landed
Who are the Taino?
He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.
Who is John Rolfe?
A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.
Who are the Puritans?
This explains what the symbols on a map mean- helps you read the map.
What is a Map key or Legend?
Series of wars started by Europeans to win back the Holy Land from the Muslims
What are the Crusades?
People who created a civilization in Guatemala and the Yucatán Peninsula, about AD 250 to 900
Who are the Maya?
The establishment of outlying settlements that are controlled by a parent country.
What is colonization?
Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in America or to pay off a debt.
What are indentured servants?
A 1637 conflict in which the Pequot battled Connecticut colonists.
What is the Pequot War?
A picture, shape, line, or color on a map used to represent the information shown.
What is a Symbol?
A Split in the Roman Catholic Church that led to Martin Luther's Protestantism
What is the Reformation?
People who created a civilization along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, beginning around 1200 BC
Who are the Olmec?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
First permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown?
Colony founded by Puritans in 1630.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
A drawing of the Earth's surface.
What is a Map?
Period when Europeans began investigating all aspects of the physical world
What is the Renaissance?
Native American group who lived in Eastern North America
Iroquois
Agreement between Spain and Portugal to explore different lands
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas ?
Native Americans who lived in the area that became Jamestown
Who is Chief Powhatan?
He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.
Who is Roger Williams?
Lines on a map that are parallel to the Equator.
What is Latitude?
Portuguese prince who started a school for sailors and sponsored early voyages of exploration
Who is Prince Henry?
A native Indian of America, daughter of Chief Powahatan, who was one of the first to marry an Englishman, John Rolfe, and return to England with him; about 1595-1617; Pocahontas' brave actions in saving an Englishman paved the way for many positive English and Native relations.
Who is Pocahontas?
A Spanish conqueror of the Americas
What is a Conquistador?
A colony under the direct control of a monarch
What is a Royal Colony?
Mass hysteria that led to the hanging, burning, and pressing of several individuals.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
Lines on a map that run through the North and South Poles.
What is Longitude?
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
Who is Hernan Cortes?
a Native American people of the Caribbean islands - the first group encountered by Columbus and his men when they reached the Americas
Who are the Taino?
A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the Amerindians.
What is Encomienda?
A planter who led a rebellion against the governor of the Virginia Colony
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
Native American chief known as King Philip who fought against English colonists in the King Philip’s War.
Who is Metacom?
One of the 7 very large landmasses on the Earth.
What is a Continent?
A written plan of government
What is a Constitution?
A new racial concept that develops in Latin America following the intermixing that occurred between European colonists and the native American population.
Who are the Mestizo?
The establishment of outlying settlements that are controlled by a parent country.
What is Colonization?
Colony known for the first Constitution known as the Mayflower Compact.
What is Plymouth?
The rules and regulations that Puritans used to strictly govern their lives daily.
What is the Bible?