First American Civilizations
The Old World Finds the New
The Old World Claims the New
French Activity
English Come to Stay
100
Although they were spread out over North America, the Indians were unified or not unified?
What is: Indians were NOT a unified people.
100
Which ruler helped Columbus reach America?
What is: Isabella
100
Spanish exploration of the New World was advanced by the __________________.
What is: conquistadors
100
This explorer claimed the Mississippi River for France.
What is: Robert de la Salle
100
The English noble men who organized an unsuccessful colony on Roanoke Island called The Lost Colony?
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh??
200
By the time that Columbus arrived in America; some groups of Indians had built_____________.
What is: impressive civilizations
200
Leif Ericson would have been a part of which one of the following groups?
What is: the Vikings
200
Hernando de Soto was a 'sea dog or a 'conquistador'
What is: conquistador
200
Name the country that explored and settled the land by the St. Lawrence River.
What is France
200
The leadership of this man helped Jamestown survive some of its early hardships.
What is: John Smith
300
The group of Indians that were horsemen who followed buffalo.
What is: Plains Indians
300
The country that provided the financial support that Columbus needed for his voyages.
What is: Spain
300
The religion that was spread by the Spanish as they explored the New World.
What is: Roman Catholicism
300
List Columbus' three ships.
What is la Nina, La Pinta and the Santa Maria
300
During the winter of 1609-10 was a time of famine and disease in the Jamestown settlement.
What is: "starving time"
400
The group of Indians that raised totem poles and gathered salmon.
What is: the West Coast Indians
400
Columbus believed that he had reached the ________ and not a New World.
What is: the Orient
400
The city that was founded in 1565 and was the oldest permanent European city in the United States.
What is: St. Augustine
400
They excluded their own highly skilled, industrious group of Protestants
What is Hugeunots
400
The Virginians called their first representative assembly the...
What is: House of Burgesses
500
The belief that spirits live in objects, in nature, and in natural events.
What is: animism
500
The courageous 'Sea Dog' that helped defeat the Spanish Armada.
What is: Sir Francis Drake
500
These colonies in America did not attract large numbers of settlers.
What are French Colonies
500
The first Africans to arrive in Jamestown were probably______.
What is: indentured servants