Native Americans
Big Names
The Spanish Question
The Colonies
Mystery Box
100

What are the three sisters (staple crops)?

Corn, beans and squash

100

Italian explorer and cartographer. The new world was named after him.

Amerigo Vespucci

100

Generalized term for soldiers and explorers of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires

Conquistadores

100

The reason for founding English settlements in the Americas

Religious upheavals in England

100

While attempting to prove a westward sea route for East Asian trade existed, he stumbled across the Bahamas in October 1492.

Christopher Columbus

200

A Spanish conquistador whose expedition conquered the Aztec Empire and brought large swaths of modern-day Mexico under Spanish authority

Hernán Cortés

200

Led the first European expedition to Florida in 1513, an area which he named. Commonly said to have been hunting for the Fountain of Youth

Juan Ponce de León

200

The collective name for two joint stock companies that had identical charters but different territorial claims.

Virginia Company

200

This new ship was able to sail upwind at a better angle. This plus new ideas on where to sail too allowed the Portuguese to go further south.

Caravel

300

This is the forced labor system imposed by the Spanish on the Native Americans

Encomienda

300

French explorer. Cultivated a fur trade with American Indians.

Jacques Cartier

300

In 1513, he led the first overland expedition by Europeans to reach the Pacific,

Vasco Nuñez de Balboa

300

Nicknamed “the Lost Colony.” First attempted English colony in the New World.

Roanoke

300

Resulted in tremendous social, cultural, and political change for both the Europeans and the American Indians

Colombian Exchange

400

Southwestern group. Extensive irrigation systems; houses were multi-story made of adobe.

Pueblo Indians

400

Worked tirelessly to prevent the enslavement of all native people in South America

Bartolome de Las Casas

400

Signed between Spain and Portugal in 1494, it decided how Christopher Columbus’s discoveries of the New World would be divided

Treaty of Tordesailles

400

The survival of the Jamestown colony can be most directly attributed to this

Tobacco

400

Large Mississippian settlement near present day Ohio. Home to as many as 30,000 people

Cahokia

500

A political confederation of six Iroquois tribes 

Haudenosaunee OR Great League of Peace

500

English polymath. Granted permission by Queen Elizabeth I to explore and colonize the New World in exchange for one-fifth of all the gold and silver this venture obtained. Founded Roanoke.

Sir Walter Raleigh

500

Spain asserted its divine right to conquer the New World, stating that its main concern was to rescue the natives from hedonism.

Spanish Requirement of 1513

500

The first written Constitution in America

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

500

Spanish explorer that invaded Peru and dominated the Incas in 1532.

Francisco Pizzaro