The First Americas
The name of a person who moves from place to place.
What is nomad?
A navigation tool used when exploring the Americas.
What is the astrolabe?
A pledge for the Pilgrims to obey the laws of the colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The name of the first commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
Known as a surprise attack.
What is ambush?
The study of the material remains of ancient peoples.
What is archaeology?
Queen Isabella hoped to convert Native Americans to _____________.
What is Christianity?
A crop that saved Jamestown by making money for the settlement’s investors.
What is tobacco?
The first man to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Who was John Hancock?
A problem caused Congress to stop issuing paper money.
What is inflation?
The place where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet is today.
What is the Four Corners?
Spanish explorer is also know as a_____________.
What is a conquistador?
A city that was originally called New Amsterdam.
What is New York City?
The name of the act that gave the East India Company an advantage over colonial merchants.
What is the Tea Act?
The American Revolution brought into focus the contradiction between the American battle for liberty and _______________________.
What is the practice of slavery.
The early American civilization that was the largest.
What is the Inca?
After the arrival of Europeans, many Native Americans died because of ______________.
What is disease?
Kept John White from returning to Roanoke for nearly three years.
What is fighting between England and Spain?
The writs of assistance allow British customs officers to search for______.
What are searching homes for smuggled goods?
The branch of government that deals with the court system is called the ___________.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The Iroquois Constitution established a ruling body called the__________________.
What is the Grand Council?
Explorers searched the coast of North America looking for the ___________________.
What is the Northwest Passage?
_______________ servants were settlers who paid for their passage to America by working without pay for a period of time.
What are Indentured Servants?
Officers could seize goods from accused smugglers without going to ____________________ as a result of the Sugar Act.
What is court?
A supporter of the Constitution is known as a______.
What is a federalist?