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100

Natives believed no one could own this.

What is land?

100

Name a mountain range in the Western Region of the United States.

Cascade, Sierra Nevada, and Rocky Mountains

100

This is what Columbus was looking for

What is a shorter, western trade route to India/Asia 

Spices and trade

100

The agreement of government created by the Pilgrims.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

100

The exchange of goods and ideas between the New and Old World.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

200
Europeans killed Natives, mostly by spreading this.
What is disease?
200

Natives in this area hunted the Buffalo that roamed the grassy open spaces here.

What is the Plains?

200
They found gold in the Americas and went to the American Southwest.
Who were the Spanish?
200

Government in Massachusetts Bay Colony was based on what?  Which group was it established by?

Religion or the Bible

The Puritans

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

200

This uncontrollable daily event greatly affected the course of ships and early colonists shelter, food and sailing.

What is weather?

300
Native Americans believed everything had this.
What is a spirit?
300

The Iroquois League of Nations lived in this area where they fished, hunted deer and taught early colonists to plant corn, squash and beans.

What is the North East?

300
These people explored the Mississippi River & were fur trappers.
Who were the French?
300

The first representative government of the 13 colonies and which colony was it established in?

The House of Burgesses, Virginia

DOUBLE JEOPARDY ONLY IF YOU GET BOTH

300

An astronomical instrument was used to determine latitude and longitude at sea by measuring angles from 200 BC to the Middle Ages

What an astrolabe?

400
Europeans believed Natives should be converted to this.
What is Christianity?
400

Eskimos in this cold region could not farm, hunted whales and seals and lived in igloos.

What is the Arctic?

400
Another name for Spanish explorers who wanted to conquer the New World.
What are Conquistadors?
400

The Mayflower Compact was written at this time and place.

What is November 11, 1620, Cape Cod (aboard the Mayflower)?

400

Copying work that is not your own without giving credit to the author is called this.

What is plagiarism?

500
Natives flourished in the Americas until this event.
What is Europeans came to the New World?
500

This Middle Eastern route was used to trade Chinese silk for a thousand years.

What is the Silk Road?

500
He led the first expedition to successfully circumnavigate the globe, proving the earth is round.
Who was Magellan?
500

Roman Republic, Greek Democracy, Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights and the Mayflower Compact all led up to this which still guides all our laws today in the United States of America.

What is the Constitution?

500

To determine if a primary or secondary source is reliable you need to examine the bias and look for this.

What is evidence?