What are the three sophisticated civilizations of ancient Meso-America and South America?
100
Spain
What is the country that sponsored the voyages of Columbus?
100
Jacques Cartier
What is the name of the first French explorer in the Americas?
100
Hispaniola
What is the name of Columbus' landing place in America?
100
Dutch East India Company
What is the commercial company that the Dutch sponsored to set up trade with America?
200
Mississippian culture
What is the name given to the groups of mound-building societies of North America?
200
Portugal
What is the country that first began sea explorations into the Atlantic ocean?
200
Religious wars in Europe
What prevented the English & French from colonizing as quickly as the Spanish did?
200
Jamestown
What was the first English settlement in No. America?
200
Powhatan Indians
What is the name of the tribe that helped English settlers in the Chesapeake Bay area?
300
Cahokia
What is the name of the ancient mound-building society in Southern Illinois?
300
Treaty of Tordesillas
What is the treaty that divided New World territories between the Spanish and the Portuguese?
300
Roanoke colony
What is the name of the English colony that disappeared completely within a year's time?
300
the Taino
What was the Indian tribe that was virtually wiped out after contact with Europeans.
300
Potatoes and corn
What are some of the important foodstuffs brought to Europe from America?
400
Chaco Canyon
What is the name of the ancient Pueblo village site in New Mexico?
400
Gold and silver
What were the chief commodities that the Spanish were looking for in the Americas?
400
Sir Walter Raleigh
Who founded the Roanoke colony?
400
Smallpox and influenza
What European diseases killed off the majority of native Americans, making conquering of their territories much easier for the conquistadors?
400
headright system
What is the system whereby English settlers to Jamestown could receive a free 50 acre plot of land, plus an additional 50 acres for anyone they brought with them?
500
70-90 million
What is the approximate number of native inhabitants of America pre-contact?
500
Columbian Exchange
What is the term for the transfer of foodstuffs and microbes that occurred when the Europeans began landing in America>
500
Florida & New Mexico
What areas of North America did the Spanish colonize?
500
Tobacco
What is the crop that allowed Jamestown to prosper?