Native American Regions
The Early Explorers
Early Settlements
Jamestown
The Pilgrims
100

This is the area between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. It is dry and mountainous. The Native Americans were nomadic hunters and gatherers who lived in huts or caves.

What is the Great Basin?

100

He was the explorer whose travels were financed by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand in Spain.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

This is the name of the first American settlement in Florida.

What is St. Augustine?

100

This caused a big problem in Jamestown because of its proximity to water.

What is disease?

100

These were people whose passage to the New World was paid for, in exchange for working for the person (typically for 7 years).

Who is an indentured servant?

200

This area is a temperate climate on the Atlantic coast.  They live in long houses in permanent villages and grew corn, beans, and squash.

What is the North East?

200

The Spanish explorers attempted to convert the Native Americans to this religion.

What is Catholic?

200

This settlement has been nicknamed "The Lost Colony."

What is Roanoke?

200

He was the first governor of Jamestown.

Who is John Smith

200

This document was the very first written agreement to just and equal laws signed by settlers in the New World.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

300

A dry desert area south of North America, the natives in this area were farmers and builders who lived in permanent houses made of stone or adobe.

What is the South West?

300

This is the Italian explorer who convinced a French king to commission him to go to the New World.  

Who is Verrazano?

300

This was the first successful English colony in America.

What is Jamestown?

300

Who changed the mind of the Jamestown settlers who had boarded a ship to leave the settlement and go back to England?

Who is Lord Delaware?

300

This Native American was especially helpful in teaching the settlers how to fish and grow crops.  It was his leadership and teaching that kept the settlers alive that first winter.

Who is Squanto?

400

This area is at the Gulf of Mexico and is warm and humid.

What is the South East?

400

This country colonized the area that is now New York.

What is the Netherlands?

400

This word was carved into a tree when "The Lost Colony" was first realized.

What is Croatoan?

400

This is an important cash crop to the early settlers.

What is tobacco?

400

This was a policy where land was granted to settlers or to anyone who paid for a person's passage to the colonies.  It was typically 50 acres.

What is the Headright System?

500

1/2 of all Native Americans lived in this area with a temperate climate.  They were forest gardeners and they practiced controlled burns to clear areas for farming.

What is the California area?

500

These two early explorer groups were considered primarily Protestant in religious practice.

What are the Dutch and the English?

500

Tobacco was the cash crop introduced by this person.

Who is John Rolfe?

500

This early governor of Virginia was describes as greedy and cruel, taking things from the colonists and keeping them for himself.

Who was Samuel Argall?

500

This war in 1637 was between the natives and the English.

What is the Pequot War?