Vocabulary
3 days of feasting to celebrate the Pilgrims first successful harvest.
What is the First Thanksgiving?
Italian navigator credited with discovering America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The discovered land, now known as America.
What is the New World?
Columbus set sail in order to find a water route to Asia and India for this.
What are spices?
This person was captured by the English and sold into slavery, he then taught Samoset English.
Who is Squanto?
The Puritans are more commonly known as this.
What are the Pilgrims?
The king and queen of Spain, lent Columbus money to find a water route to Asia and India.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
Which colony turned to cannibalism?
What is Jamestown?
The Anasazi, the Mogollon, and the Hohokam.
What are the three Arizona Native American tribes?
This person started the myth that Columbus discovered America to help unite the country.
Who is George Washington?
A labor system created by the Spanish crown. This gave landowners native laborers who payed him in exchange for protection.
What is the Encomienda system?
This person authorized the building of a military fort known as the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson. The town of Tucson then grew around this fort.
Who is Hugo O'Conor?
This colony was started by the Puritans.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
The Spanish colonized America for these reasons.
What are the Three G's (Gold, God, Glory)?
The French colonies are known for this.
What is the fur trade?
People who signed contracts to work for a number of years then be set free, however; their contracts could be sold, restarting the time.
What are indentured servants?
Father Bartolome de Las Casa is also known as this.
Who is the Protector of the Indians?
Columbus landed here and named it the West Indies.
What is The Bahamas- San Salvador?
Columbus' second voyage was to create this. Here many of his men died, so he started kidnapping natives to do the work instead.
What are gold mines?
Colonies with a social structure that had Peninsulares as the highest group of people.
What is the Spanish colonial class structure?
The Spanish built a series of 21 missions known as this.
What is El Camino Real or The Royal Road?
Famous viking explorer.
Leif Erikson
L'Anse aux Meadows was founded by this person and was the first European settlement in the Americas.
Who is Leif Erikson?
The transfer of goods involving three continents: America, Europe, and Asia. The Old World got delicious food, while the New World got livestock and diseases.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These colonies were the most ethnically diverse.
What are the middle colonies?