Chapter 1- Discovery Of A New World

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Mounds

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Made of earth and filled with weapons, pottery, and jewelry.

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Nomadic

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Indians who were constantly on the move in search of game, fish, and wild plants.

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Adobe

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A clay and straw mixture used to build houses.

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Totem Poles

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Carved from wood and depicted legends and events.

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Animism

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The belief that spirit live in objects in nature as well as in natural events.

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Vikings

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Courageous seamen from northern Europe.

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Leif Ericson

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Discovered the strange land of Vinland.

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Christopher Columbus

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An Italian sailor

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Suggested that Columbus had discovered a New World.

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Conquistadors

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Conquerors

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Juan Pounce de León

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Searched for the fountain of Youth.

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Hernando de Soto

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Discovered the Mississippi River

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St. Augustine

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It’s the oldest city in the present United States.

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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

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Explored up into present-day Kansas and discovered the Grand Canyon.

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John Cabot

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Laid claim to North America in 1497

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“Sea Dogs”

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Were a group of daring English sea captains who struck at the heart of Spanish power.

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Sir Francis Drake

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He was the most famous of the sea dogs

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Queen Elizabeth []

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Secretly Encouraged pirating raids on the Spanish.

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Jacques Cartier

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Discovered the St. Lawrence River

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Robert de La Salle

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Frenchman who claimed the Mississippi River.

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Samuel de Champlain

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Father of New France

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Huguenot

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A French Protestant.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Englishman who tried to colonize Roanoke Island.

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Jamestown

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English settlement named for the king.

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Powhatan

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Chief of the Woodland Indian tribes near Jamestown.

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John Smith

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He was a rough, hard-talking soldier who demanded obedience but he helped Jamestown survive.

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“Starving Time”

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Winter of 1609-10 when Jamestown was devastated by famine.

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Indentured servants

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Gained passage to the colonies in return for work.

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House of Burgesses

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It was the first representative government in America.

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Phillip [][]

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Strongest champion of Roman Catholicism in Europe.

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Invisible Armada

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Invasion fleet sent to destroy England.

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Plains

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Indians here lived in tepees and hunted buffalo.

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Florida

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Future state first explored by Juan Pounce de León.

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The Great Lakes

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Region explored by Samuel de Champlain.

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The Lost Colony/Roanoke

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English settlement that mysteriously disappeared.

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New France

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The Land around the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River that was rich in furs.