Who discovered the strange land of Vinland?
Leif Ericson
What region was where Indians lived in tepees, hunted buffalo, and were excellent horsement?
Plains
What is made of earth and filled with weapons, pottery, and jewelry?
Mounds
Which two monarchs gave Columbus support for his voyage?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Who suggested that Columbus had discovered a New World?
Amerigo Vespucci
What is the future state first explored by Juan Ponce de León?
Florida
What is carved from wood and depicted legends and events?
Totem poles
What religion did the Spanish spread as they explored the New World?
Roman Catholicism
Who explored up into present-day Kansas and discovered the Grand Canyon?
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
What is the oldest city in the present United States?
St. Augustine
What is the belief that spirits live in objects in nature as well as in natural events?
Animism
What is another name for Norsemen?
Vikings
Who is the strongest champion of Roman Catholicism in Europe?
Phillip ll
What region was explored by Samuel de Champlain?
Great Lakes
What was the first representative government in America?
House of Burgesses
Tobacco
Who was the chief of the Woodland Indian tribes near Jamestown?
Powhatan
What English settlement mysteriously disappeared?
Lost Colony
What is the name of the winter of 1609-10 when Jamestown was devastated by famine?
"Starving time"
What were the three different significant achievements of the Jamestown settlement?
It established the first representative law-making body in America. It developed a crop that it could raise and sell to Europe. It was the first permanent English settlement in the New World.