Explorers
What group established a colony in northeast North America from 1000 A.D. to circa. 1400 A.D.
Vikings or Norsemen
What was the first permanent European settlement in the United States?
St. Augustine, Florida
What happened to sea levels during the last Ice Age?
They lowered.
Who claimed Nova Scotia and Newfoundland for England?
John Cabot
What compromise was signed by Portugal and Spain which divided all future discoveries
the Treaty of Tordsillas
Whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?
Jamestown, Virginia
How do archeologists and anthropologists categorize Native American tribes?
by geographic region
Who claimed what was named New Netherlands?
Henry Hudson
What were the Spanish estates called that used Native American slave labor to produce sugar cane and mine gold and silver?
encomiendas
Who founded the first permanent French settlement in North America?
Samuel de Champlain
What was the first European permanent settlement in the American Southwest.
Sanat Fe, New Mexico
What was the land mass that the Paleo-Indians used to cross from Siberia (Asia) to Alaska (North America)?
Beringia
Who explored Florida and is said to have been searching the "Fountain of Youth"?
Ponce de Leon
What Dutch settlement was captured by the English and renamed New York?
New Amsterdam
Who explored the southeastern United States from Florida to the Mississippi River?
Hernando de Soto
What was the English settlement that was established as a buffer between the Spanish and Charles Town, South Carolina?
Savannah, Georgia
Which category of Native Americans were known as cliff-dwellers?
Southwest
Who was the first European to sail up the St. Lawrence River to present-day Montreal and claimed the area for France?
Jacques Cartier
What country dominated early European exploration of the New World?
Spain
What person led the group that established a European colony in North America before Columbus' voyage in 1492?
Leif Ericson
What was the first and failed English colony in the present-day United States?
Roanoke Island, North Carolina
What did the Plains Indians obtain from the Spanish that allowed them to become great hunters of buffalo?
guns and horses
Who explored the eastern coast of South America for Portugal and Spain?
Amerigo Vespucci
In searching the northeastern coast of North America, what were the Europeans trying to find?
a northwest passage