Early Americans
Technological Advancements
Terms
French and Indian War
Early English Settlements
100

This method of getting food changed the nomadic way of life and allowed early Americans to stay and create cultures?

Farming

100

Determined direction

Compass

100

Peoples shared values, beliefs, traditions and behaviors.




Culture

100

Who won the war?



British

100

The word "Croatoan" was the only clue left as to the these colonists' whereabouts.

Roanoke

200

What motivated the first American's to migrate to the America's

Chasing their food

200

Gave people access to more information, much like computers today

Printing Press

200

The tools, weapons, and artwork of early peoples are called

Artifacts

200

These two countries fought in the French and Indian War

French and British

200

John Smiths "work or starve" motto may have saved this colony.

Jamestown

300

Christopher Columbus landed in the new land in what year

1492

300

This ship was able to carry more cargo, move faster and sail into the wind.

Caravel

300

A settlement begun by a group of people in a distant land that is governed by their homeland country.

Colony

300

Including the year....name the treaty that ended the war

Treaty of Paris of 1763

300

The first governing document of Plymouth Colony agreeing to self-rule

Mayflower Compact

400

Pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa, and Europe that was centered around slave trade

Triangular Trade

400

Helped determine location by showing your latitude

Astrolabe

400

The land bridge that connected Asia and the Americans was called

Beringia

400

How did England (British) attempt to pay its war debts?

Taxing the colonists

400

Slavery was first introduced in what English settlement in the American colonies because of the high demand of tobacco?

Jamestown

500

These were men and women who signed contracts to pay for their passage to America and in return they agreed to work without pay for a certain number of years

Indentured Servants

500

This advancement is the oldest having been invented around 200 BCE 

Astrolabe

500

The discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events.

History

500

State one year during which the French and Indian War was being fought.

1754-1763

500

This early settlement was located in the present state of Massachusetts

Plymouth