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The estimated year Native Americans arrived in the Americas.
What is 30,000 BCE?
A water route to Asia that most early explorers were interested in finding.
What is the Northwestern Passage?
The first Europeans to form a settlement in North America.
Who were the Vikings?
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
What was the New England Colonies?
A person who accepts a contract to work for 7-10 years.
What is an indentured servant?
The number of Native Americans who lived in modern day US.
What is 4 million?
The sickness that killed 90% of Native Americans that caught it.
What is Smallpox?
The "Lost" Colony
What was Roanoke?
The group of colonies with the most diversity.
What are the Middle Colonies?
The way most slaves were captured.
What are war raids?
The lack of a written language made it difficult for historians to prove Native American history.
What was a challenge of Native Americans prior to European settlement?
The Spanish adopted system of slavery.
What is the Encomienda system?
The word written on a tree in the lost colony.
What is Croatoan?
The colony that Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson formed.
What is Rhode Island?
The system of life-long slavery in Colonial North America.
What is Chattel Slavery?
The belief that supernatural force can inhabit inanimate objects.
What is animism?
The person who wrote the las casas letters.
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
The leader of the Jamestown settlement.
Who was Captain John Smith?
The first written Constitution in the new colonies.
What is the Fundamental Orders?
A farmer who put together an army that wiped out Native Americans and attacked Jamestown.
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
The largest city in the Americas at the time (Aztec Empire).
What is Tenochtitlan?
The reason many European men moved to the Americas.
What is the hope of obtaining riches?
An English-speaking Abenaki chief.
Who was Samoset?
The most religiously tolerant colony.
What is New York?
The forms of resistance to slavery.