2000 BC - 1490
1492-1500
1500-1537
1537-1565
1565-1590
100
The great city of Cahokia was built on this river.
What is the Mississippi?
100
This explorer kidnapped three Micmac Natives and took them back to Europe with him.
Who is John Cabot?
100
Natives at Stadacona cured Jacques Cartier's men of this disease.
What is scurvy?
100
What people did the Spanish drive out of Florida to establish St. Augustine?
What are the French?
100
This group of Native Americans introduced early American colonists to their form of government.
What is the Iroquois League?
200
Pueblo Bonita was once inhabited by this now-extinct people.
Who are the Anasazi?
200
Christopher Columbus' purpose for coming to America that made him different than any European explorers that came before him.
What is to conquer?
200
Ferdinand Magellan's ship was the first to complete what type of journey?
What is circumnavigation of the Earth?
200
This explorers horrible treatment of Native Americans led to some tribes' inclination to shoot pale-skinned people as soon as they saw them.
Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
200
This Native American system of laws and government became the basis for the US Constitution.
What is the Great Law of Peace?
300
Leif Ericson named his settlement this when he discovered grapes growing nearby.
What is Vinland?
300
This group of Native Americans living in the Caribbean were driven to extinction by Columbus and the slavers who came after him.
Who are the Arawak?
300
This explorer conquered the city of Tenochtitlan, and was responsible for the deaths of over 120,000 Native people.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
300
Hernando de Soto discovered what river while searching for Cibola?
What is the Mississippi?
300
The disappearance of the settlers in this English colony remains and unsolved mystery.
What is Roanoke?
400
This Irish monk likely arrived in America 1000 years before Columbus.
Who is Brendan the Navigator?
400
For 350 years, this horrible practice endured; it was started by Christopher Columbus.
What is the TransAtlantic Slave Trade?
400
Ponce de Leon was NOT searching for this legendary location when he explored Florida in the 1500s.
What is the Fountain of Youth.
400
Seven legendary cities of gold.
What is Cibola?
400
This English explorer claimed what is now California for the King and Queen.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
500
This massive creature likely went extinct in around 2000 BC--while the pyramids in Egypt were being built.
What is the Woolly Mammoth?
500
Columbus arrived here, not in what is now the United States.
What is the West Indies (or the Caribbean islands)?
500
Vasco de Balboa was the first European to see what body of water?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
This was responsible for more Native American deaths than any other cause.
What is European diseases?
500
This colony is the oldest continuously-inhabited European settlement in America.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
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