Module 1
This was the strip of land that separated what is now Alaska from what is now Russia. It emerged during the ice age when the sea levels dropped.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
This was the exchange of new plants and animals that were traded between the Americas and Europe.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
This was the first permanent colony set up in what is now the United States, established in 1607 along the James River.
What is Jamestown?
This ocean was crossed by Christopher Columbus on his famous voyage in 1492 when he discovered the New World.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
She was an Indian princess who married John Rolfe, a Jamestown colonist, and was the daughter of Chief Powhatan.
Who was Pocahontas?
This is the movement of people or animals from one region to another.
What is migration?
These ships used triangular sails to sail against the wind, and had rudders to improve steering.
What are Caravels?
A colonist who received free passage to America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.
What is an indentured servant?
This term means to travel all the way around the globe.
What is circumnavigate?
He was a Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico and brought about the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernán Cortés?
This is when ancestry is traced through the maternal, or mother's, line.
What is matrilineal?
A large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit.
What is a plantation?
A document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is the continent that Great Britain belongs to.
What is Europe?
He was a Greek philosopher and teacher who wanted to make people question their own beliefs and think for themselves.
Who is Socrates?
These are buildings used for Muslim prayer.
What are mosques?
A religious movement started by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
A crop that is continuously in demand.
What is a staple crop?
This was one of the thirteen colonies and was established as a buffer between the English colonies and Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
He was the emperor of Mexico's Aztec Empire. He welcomed explorer Cortés as a god, but was taken prisoner by him. He was later killed, and the Aztec capital was destroyed during the following Aztec uprising.
Who was Moctezuma II?
This term refers to large animals, generally those of the Pleistocene era.
What is Mega Fauna?
A non-existent path through North America that early explorers searched for, which would have allowed ships to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Northwest Passage?
A religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
This mountain range makes up the western boundary between the thirteen colonies and French territory before 1763.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Quaker leader who founded a colony for Quakers in Pennsylvania; the colony provided an important example of representative self-government and became a model of freedom and tolerance.
Who was William Penn?