Columbus
Columbus was seeking a route to this country.
What is India?
This region was known for its wide open flat land and huge herds of buffalo.
What is the Plains Region?
When the ocean that separates two continents lowers exposing land it lets people travel from one place to another by foot.
What is a land bridge?
These colonies were known for manufacturing, farming, warm summers and cold winters.
What were the Middle Colonies?
These are the people Columbus found when he landed in the New World.
Who are the Taino?
This region is known for it's rivers and mountains, totem poles, and sea hunters, and spectacular native American art.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
The first people in what is North and South America arrived from this continent.
What is Asia?
Fishing and boat building were the main industries in this region.
What were the New England Colonies?
These were the main reasons for early exploration of new worlds.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
The Iroquois and Algonquin tribes inhabited this region.
What is the Woodlands Region?
This was a long period when temperatures dropped and sea levels lowered.
What was the Ice Age?
This was the term used to describe the route slaves took from Africa to the New World.
What was the Middle Passage?
This was the main cause of death for native people.
What is disease?
This dry region is marked by canyons, mesas, and Pueblo dwellings.
What is the Southwest Region?
These terms are used to describe things that make you want to leave where you are, and move to a new area.
What are push factors and pull factors?
This was the year the first slaves arrived in the colonies.
What was 1619?
This was the name given to the mixing of cultures, trading of goods and resources, movement of people between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This type of shelter was common on the Plains.
What is a tipi (teepee)?
This term describes objects made by humans in the past.
What is an artifact?
Slavery was mostly located in this region.
What were the Southern Colonies?