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| 4825104756 | African Slave Trade | African people were taken as slaves to be sold in America, in America they would work in mines & plantations. The profit went to Europe where they built goods to then be sold to Africans. It was a triangle. | 0 | |
| 4825106459 | Algonquian | A group or nation in the northeast that included the Lenape, Montauk, Machican, and Adirondack. They speak the Algonquian language. | 1 | |
| 4825106460 | Atlantic World | A pattern of exchange between Western Europe, Western Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean. Made it easier to get goods from foreign places. | 2 | |
| 4825112372 | Biological and Cultural Changes | The two worlds greatly effected one another in trade and exchange of ideas but diseases played a large role in the native populations rapid decline. | 3 | |
| 4825112836 | Cahokia | A commercial center for regional and long-distance trade in North America. Its hinterlands produced staples for urban consumers. In return, its crafts were exported inland by porters and to North American markets in canoes. | 4 | |
| 4825151076 | Catholic Missions | A number of settlements and building created by the Spanish in the New World in order to spread religion and stake claims to land. | 5 | |
| 4825152869 | Charter Companies | An association of investors for the purpose of trade, exploration, and colonization | 6 | |
| 4825155548 | Christopher Columbus | An Italian navigator who was funded by the Spanish Government to find a passage to the Far East. He is given credit for discovering the "New World," even though at his death he believed he had made it to India. He made four voyages to the "New World." The first sighting of land was on October 12, 1492, and three other journies until the time of his death in 1503. | 7 | |
| 4825160304 | Conquistadores | Spanish 'conqueror' or soldier in the New World. They were searching for the 3-G's: gold, God, and glory. | 8 | |
| 4825162616 | Corn (maize) Cultivation | Mayans grew to feed their people so some could spend time making pottery, weaving cloth, studying stars, or building cities . | 9 | |
| 4825169020 | Coureurs De Bois | (runners of the woods) French fur traders, many of mixed Amerindian heritage, who lived among and often married with Amerindian peoples of North America. | 10 | |
| 4825171398 | Don Juan De Onate | Founded New Mexico and built Santa Fe. | 11 | |
| 4825172934 | Encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it. | 12 | |
| 4825174660 | Fur Trader | Aggressively pursued trading relationships with Native People. | 13 | |
| 4825176219 | Henry Hudson | An English explorer who explored for the Dutch. He claimed the Hudson River around present day New York and called it New Netherland. He also had the Hudson Bay named for him. | 14 | |
| 4825177548 | Iroquois | A later native group to the eastern woodlands. They blended agriculture and hunting living in common villages constructed from the trees and bark of the forests. | 15 | |
| 4825181041 | Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia. | 16 | |
| 4825182521 | Matrilineal | Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother. | 17 | |
| 4825184367 | Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought. | 18 | |
| 4825186159 | Meso-American | a geographical and cultural area which extends from central Mexico down through Central America, -- Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador. Many important ancient civilizations developed in this area, including Mayas and Aztecs. | 19 | |
| 4825188164 | Mestizos | A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory. | 20 | |
| 4825189321 | Pueblo Revolt | Native American revolt against the Spanish in late 17th century; expelled the Spanish for over 10 years; Spain began to take an accommodating approach to Natives after the revolt. | 21 | |
| 4825193660 | Puritans | A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. | 22 | |
| 4825196241 | Racial Hierachry | In the New World one's race often determined their place in society. | 23 | |
| 4825198307 | Roanoke | Established in 1587. Called the Lost Colony. It was financed by Sir Walter Raleigh, and its leader in the New World was John White. All the settlers disappeared, and historians still don't know what became of them. | 24 | |
| 4825200358 | Samuel De Champlain | French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635). | 25 | |
| 4825203130 | Sir Walter Raliegh | Sponsored settlement on Ranoke island disappeard and became known as the lost colony. | 26 | |
| 4825211100 | Smallpox | The overall deadliest known disease in the history of the world. In the 20th century alone there were approximately 500,000,000 people who died of this disease. | 27 | |
| 4825212620 | Tenochititlan | The capital city of the Aztecs on an island in Lake Texcoco. | 28 | |
| 4825214339 | Woodland Indians | the eastern third of what is now the United States was inhabited by the? | 29 |
