Colonies
In this region of the Thirteen Colonies, plantation agriculture supported by slavery was the main economic activity.
What are the Southern colonies (Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware)?
These were the original inhabitants of North and South America.
Who are the Indians?
This continent provided almost all of the slaves taken to North America.
What is Africa?
After landing, Christopher Columbus believed he had reached this country, which led to him giving a confusing name to the inhabitants of North and South America.
What is India?
These two oceans and one smaller body of water from the eastern, western, and southeastern borders of the United States.
What are the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico?
This region of the Thirteen Colonies, because of its rocky and infertile soil, was known for small farms tended by large families of free white settlers.
What is New England?
This Italian explorer, while working for Spain, crossed the Atlantic and landed in Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
Who is Christopher Columbus?
For every white European who came to North and South America, this many Africans also made the trip.
What is 3?
Archaeologists believe the ancestors of the Indians arrived in America around 20,000 years ago or earlier by walking across a land bridge, or sailing rafts down the coast of California, from this continent?
What is Asia?
These two nations form the northern and southern borders of the United States.
What are Canada and Mexico?
This region of the Thirteen Colonies became famous for its diversity during the colonial period, with settlers from many different nations (including non-whites) practicing many different religions.
What are the Middle Colonies?
These northern European explorers established a short-lived colony in present-day Canada about 500 years before Columbus, but abandoned it because they could not defeat the Indians with their technology.
Who are the Vikings?
This region of the country hosted a large population of Spanish colonists by the time the Thirteen Colonies were founded.
What is the Southwest?
Before European settlers switched to importing Africans for this purpose, Indians were often used as this type of labor.
What are slaves?
This mountain range formed the western border of the Thirteen Colonies.
What are the Appalachians?
This southern colony was established primarily to defend the other colonies from Spanish attacks originating in present-day Florida.
What is Georgia?
These three European countries became the dominant powers on the North American continent after paying for most of the early expeditions sent there.
What are Spain, France and England?
The region of North America settled by French colonists, who traded furs and lived among their Indian allies, is named after these five natural features?
What are the Great Lakes?
Around the year 1000, this city of Indians in what is now Illinois had a population larger than that of London at the time, including many Indians who had immigrated from other regions.
What is Cahokia?
This large river provided settlers west of the Appalachians with their cheapest route to sell goods overseas.
What is the Mississippi?
This Middle Colony was originally settled by the Dutch before being seized by England, and became famous as the most diverse place in America.
What is New York?
This English explorer, who was called a pirate by his enemies, was the first European to explore the coast of California, although he became rich by attacking gold shipments in the Gulf of Mexico.
Who was Francis Drake?
What is New Mexico?
This Indian nation, whose territory was located in what is now Texas, became rich and powerful after Mexican independence, took over many towns along the border, and obtained thousands of guns by capturing and selling slaves.
Who are the Comanche?
This French city at the mouth of the Mississippi became rich from trade after being absorbed into the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
What is New Orleans?