1 Roots of American People
An advanced culture in which people have developed cities, science, and industries.
What is a civilization?
In August 1492, about 90 men aboard 3 ships set sail for Asia. They were led by this man.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This is a person who takes a religious journey.
Who is a Pilgrim?
In 1215, English nobles forced King John to sign this "great charter".
What is the Magna Carta?
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Who are the Greeks and the Romans?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
Who are the New England Colonies?
Someone who learns a trade by working for someone in that trade for a certain period of time.
What is an apprentice?
He sailed from Cuba to Mexico in 1519 with more than 500 soldiers. He later destroyed the capital city of Tenochtitlan.
Who was Hernando Cortes?
The great trade route from China to the Middle East where silk and other goods were traded.
What is the Silk Road?
These were Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain and sat at the top of the rigid social system based on birthplace and social structure.
Who are the Peninsulares?
He was sent in 1608 from England to lead the colony at Jamestown and made new, tough rules.
Who is John Smith?
This system of trade was a 3 way trade between the colonies, the islands of the Caribbean, and Africa.
What is the triangular trade?
This explorer set out with 1,100 Spaniards and Native Americans to find a golden city. He explored much of present day New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Kansas.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
Their capital city, Tenochtitlan, was built on a series of islands in a large lake.
Who were the Aztecs?
A sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that passed through or around North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
What is the banjo?
This explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River and explored it as far as the present-day city of Montreal.
Who are the Incas?
The French and the Dutch made one of these with Native American peoples.
What is an alliance?
This colony was established last and would keep the Spanish from expanding its colonies.
What is Georgia?
He published Poor Richard's Almanack from 1733 to 1753.
Who are Father Marquette and Louis Joliet?