Early America
Though it faces challenges today, this has been the most commonly accepted explanation for the arrival of Native Americans to America.
The Bering Strait Land Bridge or Pacific Coastal Migration.
This was a social system with a king at the top and peasants at the bottom.
What is feudalism?
This event served as the inspiration for further European colonization of the Native Americans.
What were Pizarro or Cortes' defeat of the Native Americans?
This was the main source of money for French colonists in the New World.
What was the fur trade? (also fishing or trapping)
This was a path which European explorers hope would connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
These early American civilizations made great strides in astronomy and mathematics.
Who are the Mayan and Aztecs?
This was a global exchange of goods, ideas, and interaction between people.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
What are missions?
This was the first permanent French settlement in North America.
What is Port Royal?
The settlers of this English colony mysteriously disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
This early civilization inspired the Incans, Mayans, and Aztec civilizations which followed them.
The first person to circumnavigate the earth.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
The social class at the top of Spanish colony social order.
Who were the penninsulares?
French settlers relied upon the waterways for transportation.
Why did the French favor settlements near the water?
This legal document gave rights to a person or company to found a colony in the name of the king.
What is a charter?
This region of North America is where the mound-building Native American people lived.
What is the Northeast and Southeast?
A massive advance in philosophy, mathematics, and learning which was brought about by increased trade and travel in Europe.
What was the Renaissance?
Most were kept in poverty and lived as second-class citizens.
What was life like for Native Americans in Spanish colonies?
This Dutch colony and capital of New Netherlands is present-day New York City.
What is New Amsterdam?
This new form of colonial government gave better representation to the colonists within the colony of Jamestown.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This alliance of Native American tribes formed in the Northeast of North America, and still exists to this day.
What is the Iroquois League?
The first group of Native Americans that Christopher Columbus came in contact with, whom he later became governor of.
Who were the Tainos?
Ponce de Leon searched the area which is now Florida for this legendary place.
What is the Fountain of Youth?
The French built forts along these in order to keep Spain and England out of Louisiana.
What are the Great Lakes?
This crop helped to turn Jamestown into a viable and profitable colony.
What is tobacco?