Multiple Choice
The spreading of ideas to help or hurt a cause
propaganda
Loyalty
allegiance
One hundred years
century
Skins from fur-bearing animals
pelts
A formal agreement between two or more countries
treaty
Surrounding a fort or town and preventing supplies or reinforcements from reaching it
siege
The practice of exchanging one product for another
barter
Probably the first European to set foot in present-day Tennessee
Hernando De Soto
What were the Spaniards looking for that they did not find in Tennessee?
Gold and riches; when they did not find it, they did not stay
Christopher Columbus found the New World and claimed it for what country?
Spain
First Englishmen to set foot in Tennesee
James Needham and Gabriel Arthur
What was the main source of transport for traders through the thick forests?
Native American burdeners
A German socialist who wanted to establish a "Kingdom of Paradise" in the Over hill country
Christian Gottlieb Priber
Who controlled the land in America east of the Mississippi River after the Treaty of Paris?
Great Britain
The natural ability to resist disease or infection
immunity
The fight for control over the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys was called ____?____.
The French and Indian War
Little Carpenter was a Cherokee chief who was an ally of the _____?______
British
The main cause of the drastic decline of the Native American population?
European diseases
Who were important informants of the activities of the Native Americans?
Early traders
To what faith did De Soto try to convert the inhabitants of the region?
Catholic
Who built Fort Prud'homme on the Chickasaw Bluffs?
Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle
What place came the center of the Cherokee, provided protection from the French invasion, and helped the British keep friendly relations with the Cherokee?
Fort Loudoun
Alexander Cuming did more for establishing a good relationship with the ____?____ than anyone else?
Cherokee
What skills did the Europeans learn from the Native Americans?
Trap animals and fish; adopted crops like maize, beans, and squash; the medicinal properties of certain plants