Native Americans
Lived in teepees and hunted buffalo on the Great Plains.
Who were the Plains tribes?
The three main motives for exploration were God, Gold, and ______.
What is Glory?
Africans were forced to cross the Atlantic on this voyage.
What is the Middle Passage?
This ocean had to be crossed for Europeans to reach the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
These people lived in longhouses and formed the Iroquois Confederacy.
Who were the Eastern Woodland tribes?
This explorer sailed west for Spain in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This trade system linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
Native tribes in the desert Southwest had to use this to farm.
What is irrigation?
Built adobe homes and used irrigation to farm in the desert.
Who were the Southwest tribes?
The Columbian Exchange sent this deadly effect to the Americas.
What are diseases?
Africans contributed this important farming skill used in the South.
What is rice cultivation?
Plains tribes followed this animal as a food and resource source.
What is the buffalo (bison)?
Geography shaped culture because tribes adapted their ______, ______, and ______ to their environment.
What are homes, food, and traditions?
Europeans brought wheat, horses, and cattle, while they received crops like corn and ______.
What is potatoes (or tomatoes/chocolate)?
Name one food introduced by Africans into American diets.
What are okra or rice,
The Eastern Woodlands had rich soil and forests, which supported both farming and ______.
What is hunting?
This animal introduced by Europeans greatly changed Native hunting and travel.
What is the horse?
These Spanish conquerors sought wealth and power in the Americas.
Who were the conquistadors?
African music and storytelling influenced American styles such as ______ and ______.
What are blues and jazz (or gospel)?
Geography shaped where people settled by providing access to ______ and ______.
What are water and fertile land?