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The Maiden Voyage
Buy, Sell, Trade
American Workforce
Jamestown
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100
The search for gold
What is the one of the main reasons for Columbus' journey.
100
Noble ones who bore no arms, were friendly, generous, and traded with good will
Who were the Taino, or "noble ones".
100
Workers who worked 4-7 years in exchange for food, shelter, and passage to America
Who are indentured servants.
100
A time when colonists ate roots, rats, snakes, and boiled shoe leather.
What is known as "starving time"
100
Smallpox, measles, mumps, chicken pox, and typhus.
What are diseases spread amongst the Native Americans, brought by the European settlers.
200
San Salvador
Where Columbus landed?
200
West Africa
What is the origin of most slaves in the Americas?
200
Slaves and indentured servants were needed to plant this "brown gold"
What is tobacco
200
Founded a new strain of tobacco that saved Virginia from extinction.
Who is John Rolfe?
200
12 million Africans
What is the number of Africans brought into slavery by the end of the slave trade.
300
Vespucci
Who America is named after?
300
The Columbian Exchange
What is the name of the global transfer of living things.
300
Montezuma
Who is the leader of the Aztec Empire?
300
"You must now obey this law....He that shall not work..shall not eat
What is the law enforced by John Smith to the remaining settlers at Jamestown.
300
Incas
Who are the greatest cvilization in South America?
400
Christianity/Catholicism
What is the religion that was to be spread in the new land by Columbus.
400
Sweet potatoes, pumpkins, cassava, vanilla and pineapple
What are items traded from the Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia.
400
Daily double!!!! Name 3 key traits of a civilization.
What iare cities, specialized workers, advanced technology, written language, complex institutions.
400
Alarmed by the growing number of settlers, these people killed the colonists livestock, and destroyed their crops.
Who are the Powhatan
400
Pope Alexander VI formed this treaty to avoid war between Portugal and Spain
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas
500
Daily Double!!!!!!!! Name two invention that improved navigation
cartography, compass, sexton, caravel
500
Coffee beans, olives, sugar cane, and bananas
What are items brought to America from Europe, Africa, and Asia.
500
Daily Double The demand for slaves and the slave trade continued for this amount of years
What is nearly 400 years
500
JamestownVirginia
What is the first permanent English settlement in North America?
500
In the year 1500, this dissatified king and queen ordered Columbus to leave Hispaniola.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella