Vocabulary
Colonization
To send a group of settlers over (to a place) and take control over it.
What caused Europeans to travel west?
They were searching for spices and a route to Asia
What is a slave?
The treatment of people as property and denied freedom.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The exchange of items between Europe and the Americas.
Where do scientist believe the First Americans came from?
Siberia
Colony
A new settlement established and governed by a country in another land.
Europeans wanted to travel west to spread....
Which country first began the slave trade?
Portugal
Name 5 things that were traded in the Columbian Exchange.
Food, animals, people, religion, ideas, diseases
How do scientist believe the First Americans arrived to the Americas?
Crossing a land bridge
Indentured Servants
A person is contracted to work without pay for a specific number of years.
Who first colonized the land we know as the United States?
Juan Ponce de Leon
The slave trade occurred over what ocean?
The Atlantic Ocean
Where did the name Columbian Exchange come from?
Christopher Columbus and trading things.
How did the First Americans adapt to their environment?
By using natural resources.
Rights
Powers that belong to people as citizens and should not be taken away by the government.
Juan Ponce de Leon was searching for this.
The fountain of youth
What was the slave trade route? They went from where to where?
Europe to Africa, Africa to the Americas, & the Americas to Europe.
What was the Columbian Exchange Route? From where to where?
From Europe, Africa, and Asia to the Americas and the Americas to Europe, Africa and Asia.
How many cultural regions were formed?
8
Parliament
The lawmaking body of England.
Northwest Passage
What was the main difference between an indentured servant and a slave?
Indentured servants were free after a period of time, while slaves were not freed.
Name an animal that the Americas did not have but gained due to the Columbian Exchange.
Cattle, sheep, pig, horses
Name at least 5 cultural regions
Northwest Coast, California, Southwest, Plateau, Great Basin, Great Plains, Eastern Woodlands, Southeast