Key Terms
What is culture?
To move from one place and establish a home in a new place
What is Migrate?
Early European explorer who travelled to China and India and helped start a trade route there.
Who is Marco Polo?
Area in the U.S. that was known as the Spanish Borderlands.
This is the length of time the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade lasted.
What is 400 years?
A new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land.
What is a colony?
This existed between Asia and North America roughly 30,000 years ago and was used as a hunting ground and means of Migration.
What is the Land Bridge/Berengia?
His goal in the 1490s was to find the shortest route to the East Indies
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Spanish explorer of Florida whose journey was motivated by a search for a mythical 'Fountain of Youth.'
Who is Ponce de Leon?
This is the name given to the horrific and deadly journey Africans experienced on their way to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
people who travel to a territory or community in order to gain converts to their religion.
What is a missionary?
Reasons believed to be behind people migrating around North and South America once they were here.
Spanish conquistador credited with defeating the Incan empire in 1532, which led to Spanish control of South America.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Francisco Coronado led an expedition through Mexico in search of these.
What is the Seven Cities of Cibola?
Cash crop cultivated in the Americas and was considered the most labor intensive.
What is Sugar Cane?
Useful material found in nature.
What is natural resources?
The American Indian cultural region in which Michigan is located.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
Established in 1492 by the expeditions of Christopher Columbus, this was the exchange of plants, animals, materials, and disease between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The oldest settlement founded by Europeans in the Americas.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
Slave revolt that resulted in the decapitation of its leaders but also the burning of many plantations in 1739.
What is Hutchinson's Revolt?
(also accept Stono Rebellion)
Forced labor and confinement of a group of people.
What is slavery?
The type of clothing worn by most American Indians in the Plains.
What is animal hide and fur?
Spanish soldier explorers responsible for bringing disease to the Americas as well as establishing Spanish colonies in the Americas.
What is a conquistador?
Conversion to Catholicism, introduction of new tools, and destruction of entire villages by diseases were all ways in which Europeans impacted what group?
Who are Native Americans?
First successful slave revolt occurred here in the 1790s, resulting in the establishment of the first Black Republic.
What is St. Dominique/ Haiti?