Native American Know-It-Alls
This theory explains how the first people may have crossed into North America from Asia.
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
Spanish explorers who conquered Native American empires were known by this name.
What are conquistadors?
This event exchanged plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
England's first permanent settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This 3 pointed trading network connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangle Trade?
These Native Americans depended heavily on buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter.
Who are the Plains Indians?
Gold, God, and this third reason motivated exploration.
What is Glory?
Europeans gained this important American crop that became a major food source.
What is the potato?
This representative assembly met in Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The second leg of the Triangle Trade was known by this name.
What is the Middle Passage?
The Iroquois called themselves this, meaning "People of the Longhouse."
What is Haudenosaunee?
This conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernán Cortés?
Native Americans gained this animal that improved transportation and hunting.
What is the horse?
These settlers sailed on the Mayflower and founded Plymouth.
Who were the Pilgrims?
Enslaved Africans were transported during this leg of the trade route.
What is the Middle Passage?
This type of shelter was used by the Iroquois because of the forests in their region.
What is a longhouse?
This conquistador conquered the Inca Empire.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
This devastating disease killed millions of Native Americans.
What is smallpox?
England used this economic system to profit from its colonies.
What is mercantilism?
This region became known as the Breadbasket Colonies.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This alliance united five Native American nations into one government.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
These two empires were considered advanced because of their cities, roads, and governments.
What are the Aztec and Inca Empires?
This was one major negative effect of the Columbian Exchange on Native Americans.
What is disease/population decline?
This document was signed aboard the Mayflower before settling in Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Fishing, shipbuilding, and whaling were major industries in this colonial region.
What is New England?