This was crossed so that Natives were able to inhabit the Americas.
What is traveling over the Bering Strait Land Bridge?
100
This person is often given credit for the discovery of America.
Who is Columbus?
100
This was the continent slaves were taken from, besides North/South America.
What is Africa?
100
This country claimed all lands west of the Line of Demarcation.
What is Spain?
100
This gave permission to an English settler to colonize land.
What is a charter?
200
This is a range of years that have gone by since natives came to the Americas.
What is anywhere between 10,000-50,000 years?
200
Columbus was originally searching for this.
What is a oceanic westward passage to Asia for spices?
200
This is why plantation owners needed to find new slaves instead of using natives.
What is the natives were dying?
200
This country wanted to move the Line of Demarcation so they could also claim lands in the new world. Technically, they were the first country to explore, but they did it around Africa.
What is Portugal?
200
This was the route traders took slaves on to reach the colonies.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
Natives had an attachment or spiritual connection with this.
What is nature?
300
This was an explorer for which the Americas are named after.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
300
This was one of the main cash crops during the time of the slave trade.
What is sugar cane, tobacco, cotton?
300
These soldiers for spain conquered many lands and drove out or enslaved many native tribes like the Aztec and Inca.
What are conquistadors?
300
These were a couple items exchanged after Columbus came to the Americas.
What is animals and crops?
400
Name a ritual, activity, or something a native group did that demonstrated their culture.
What is Answers will vary (total poles, weaving, pottery, sun dance, longhouses, tipis, uses of buffalo)?
400
Name two other reasons besides a water passage route to Asia for why explorers traveled to the Americas.
What is to spread religion, to avoid persecution, to find riches, to conquer lands for a nation, to colonize?
400
Plantation owners needed a big work force to help in fields and to create a huge supply and profit. This was one reason they didn't get other Europeans to come over and work.
What is make more money in Europe, dangerous journey, native attacks?
400
This was a disease natives did not have an immunity for.
What is small pox?
400
This was a reason Columbus is sometimes seen as a cruel man.
What is he stole, enslaved, punished his men?
500
Name one positive interaction between explorers and natives.
What is trading?
500
Name three negative effects explorers had on natives.
What is spread of disease, enslavement, removal of land, death, destroying culture, stealing of resources?
500
List three negative consequences to being on a slave ship?
What is Answers will vary?
500
This movement occurred when Christians tried to break free from the Catholic structure of Christianity. It led to conflict, and some people who faced persecution would flee Europe because of it.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
500
This is the number of trips Columbus took to the Americas before dying.