The Land
European Settlements
Vocabulary
Grab Bag
100

Present day Ohio would be at this location on the map. 

What is number 4?

100

In 1682, this European country controlled the land where present day Ohio sits. 

What is England?

100

The name for materials that are found in nature and are useful to humans. 

What are natural resources?

100

Beringia is believed to have provided passageway between Asia and the land that is now ______. 

What is Alaska? 

200

Beringia is believed to have been located at this location on the map. 

What is number 1?

200

This European country controlled only a very small area of land in the area where present-day New York sits.

What is the Netherlands?

200
The name for Spanish soldiers who traveled to the Americas with crews of merchants and took land and resources from the Indigenous people of Mexico and Peru.

What are conquistadors?

200

These are some examples of resources that Europeans sought in the Americas (name at least 3). 

What are gold, silver, fur, timber?

300

The names of these two bodies of water.  Your answer must say which name goes with which number.

What are (3) Pacific Ocean and (4) Atlantic Ocean?

300
Identify one way that explorers got the resources needed to travel to the Americas.

What is sponsorship by a government or company?

300

A new settlement or territory that is governed by a country but is ____________________________ is called a colony. 

What is in another land or part of the world? 

300

The Great Plains Indigenous cultural region was framed by these two natural borders. 

What are the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River? 

400

The names of these two geographic features.  You must correctly each feature with the correct number. 

What are the (1) Rocky Mountains and (2) Appalachian Mountains?

400

These two companies sent groups of people to the Americas hoping to start colonies where they could gather resources from the land.

What are The London Company and the Dutch West India Company?

400

Missionaries travel to other communities for this purpose. 

What is to convert people to their religion?

400

These are two reasons that European settlers were able to gain control of the land in the Americas. 

What are the use of force, the weakening of Indigenous communities due to the spread of disease, cooperation, unfair/dishonest trade agreements, and different ideas about land ownership and access?

500

The name of the geographic feature that is traced in blue.

What is the Ohio River? 

500

Identify two different reasons that Europeans traveled to the Americas.

What are to gain land start a colony, to explore new areas, to gather resources for trade or person wealth, or to spread religion?

500

The Columbian Exchange involve the exchange of ____ across this body of water. 

What are plants, animals, diseases, and people and the Atlantic Ocean? 

500

This led to the failure of the Roanoke colony.

What is a mystery?  No one knows exactly what happened.  John White sailed back to England to get more supplies.  His return was delayed by fighting in Europe and when he finally returned in 1560 the colony was deserted.