Motivation
Colonization
Indigenous Peoples
Middle Passage
100

He sailed in 1492 across the ocean blue.

Christopher Columbus

100

The name of the ship that brought the first British colonists to America

The Mayflower

100

This tribe is native to Baltimore City

Lumbee Nation

100

The Middle Passage was part of this larger trading system.

Triangular Slave Trade

200

These “Three G’s” motivated European exploration.

God, Gold, and Glory

200
These poor Europeans traveled to America with sponsors.

Indentured Servants

200

This deadly exchange of diseases, plants, and animals began after 1492.

Columbian Exchange

200

Africans were captured and taken for what purpose

Free Labor/ Slavery
300
The name of the "place" Columbus was believed to discover

The New World

300

Pilgrims signed this agreement before landing at Plymouth to create self-government.

Mayflower Compact

300

This disease contributed to the decrease in Native American population.

Smallpox/Measles/Flu

300

There were this many stops of the Triangular Slave Trade

3

400
These two countries were first to colonize the Americas

Spain and Portugal

400

This was the first permanent English colony in America.

Jamestown

400

This group of Natives lived in Jamestown.

Powhatan

400

These 3 continents were involved in the Triangular Slave Trade

Africa, Europe and North America

500

This religious group sought freedom from the Church of England

Puritans
500

The main cash crop of Jamestown

Tobacco

500
Name for Native Americans showing their place of origin

Indigenous

500

Conditions on the ships can be described using this one word.

Inhumane/ horrific/terrible