Native Americans
Explorers
Inventions
Vocabulary
Odds and Ends
100

Easily moveable shelter used by the Plains Indians

Tipi

100

First person to circumnavigate the earth

Magellan

100

Improved the steamboat

Fulton

100

Maize

Corn

100

Movement of things from Europe to America and from America to Europe

Columbian Exchange

200

Cliff Dwellers in the SW

Pueblo

200

People who "discovered" America before Columbus

Vikings

200

Use of the Flying Shuttle

Faster production of (textiles) fabric.

200

Three Sisters

Squash, Corn, Beans

200

Number of natives in the islands when Columbus landed

2 million

300

Three uses for buffalo

Shelter

Clothing

Food

300

Three reasons explorers explored

Gold Glory God

300

Inventor of telegraph improving communication

Morse

300

Census

Count of population take every 10 years

300

Two causes for the deaths of many natives

Slaver and disease

400

Name of natives first encountered by Columbus

Taino

400

First American settlement (by Spain)

St. Augustine, FLA

400

Inventor of the steam pump used to clear mines

Hargreave

400

Nomad

Hunter gatherer groups that move from place to place.

400

Old World

Europe

500

Dwellings made from adobe

Pueblo

500

Searched for the Northwest Passage

Cabot

500

Natural resource in England that made the industrial revolution possible

Coal

500

Plantation

Large "farms" often using slave labor

500

Number of hours children could work during the early industrial revolution

10