Native American Cultures
The first people migrated from Asia to the Americas mainly for this reason.
What is in search of food?
Indigenous peoples in the Southeast often built their towns around these large structures made of earth.
What are earthen mounds?
This was a major motivation for Europeans to explore the Americas.
What is profit?
These two groups played major roles in establishing Spanish settlements in the borderlands.
Who are soldiers and missionaries?
This form of government became an important English tradition adopted in the 13 colonies.
What is self-government?
Different Indigenous cultural regions developed because groups adapted to this.
What is their environment?
Indigenous peoples in this region lived in adobe villages, sometimes on top of flat mesas.
What is the Southwest?
European explorers hoped to find this type of route to Asia.
What is a water route?
The first Jamestown colonists struggled in part because they were challenged by this.
What is the environment?
This document provided English subjects with the right to petition the king.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
People in the same Indigenous cultural region often shared this aspect of culture.
What is a similar language?
The environment of a region influenced how Indigenous peoples obtained these necessities.
What are food, clothing, and shelter?
This exchange began when Europeans and Indigenous peoples came into contact, bringing plants, animals, and diseases between the continents.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This marriage helped reduce conflict between Jamestown colonists and local Indigenous people.
What is the marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas?
Connecticut's Fundamental Orders are considered an early example of this type of document.
What is a written constitution?
Most Indigenous groups viewed themselves as part of this rather than as owners of the land.
What is a community of living things?
A cultural region is an area where groups share similar aspects of this.
What is culture?
One devastating effect of the Columbian Exchange on Indigenous populations was death caused by these.
What are diseases?
A person who agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for passage to America was called this.
What is an indentured servant?
Unlike Puritan Massachusetts, Roger Williams's Providence welcomed people with different beliefs about this.
What is religion?
This Indigenous cultural region had an especially dry or arid climate.
What is the Great Basin?
Instead of seeing nature as something to completely control, many Indigenous groups believed humans were part of this.
What is the natural environment/community of living things?
Spanish conquistadors wanted to accomplish this in the Americas for Spain.
What is conquer a large empire?
This colony was intended by James Oglethorpe to provide a new home for English debtors.
What is Georgia?
This forced ocean voyage brought enslaved Africans to the Americas as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
What is the Middle Passage?