Important Vocabulary
An American Indian home that is longer than wide.
What is a longhouse?
This group of American Indians traded beaver pelts with European settlers.
Who are the Iroquois?
This is a special type of settlement that the Spanish set up to help spread religion.
What is a mission?
This French explorer explored Lake Michigan and the state of Wisconsin a century after French explorer Jacques Cartier explored in North America.
Who is Jean Nicolet?
Most explorers relied on this geographical feature to explore the Americas.
What are waterways and bodies of water?
Someone who travels looking for new land and discoveries.
Who is an explorer?
This group of American Indians made pottery and wove baskets in order to meet their needs.
Who are the Cherokee?
This was the first permanent settlement in North America.
What is St. Augustine?
This French explorer sailed the St. Lawerence River.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The first English settlement in North America.
What is Roanoke?
A place ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
Many Native Americans built longhouses. The longhouses were made using these.
What are trees?
This Spanish explorer was looking for the Fountain of Youth.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
The French set up these posts to buy fur from the Native Americans.
What are trading posts?
This English settlement was one of the first successful settlements.
What is Plymouth?
An area of land owned by a country either within or outside of the country's borders.
What is a territory?
Many Native Americans settled in areas with these types of geography in order to help with survival.
What are areas with trees and rivers?
Spanish explorers forced these people to work hard, eat Spanish food, and speak Spanish.
Who are the American Indians or Native Americans?
This deal more than doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This English settlement was settled after Roanoke, however, it struggled to survive as well due to disease and starvation.
What is Jamestown?
A follower of a religion that believes in peace and equal treatment for all people.
Who is a Quaker?
This agreement was a result of the Iroquois Confederacy and it ensured that all decision making was done peacefully.
What is the Great Law of Peace?
This is the main reason Spanish explorers came to the Americas.
What is to find riches, gold, gems, and fame?
What is an all water route to India?
This is the main reason English explorers came to the Americas.
What is religious freedom?