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1
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Where the Huguentos settled

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English territory

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where did Columbus believe he had settled when he actually discovered the New World

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East Indies

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Who helped Jamestown’s settlers survive early hardships

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John Smith

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4
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Were the Indians unified people

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No

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He was trying to find the legendary fountain of youth, but was possibly the first European to see the land that is now the United States.

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Juan Ponce de Leon

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This French explorer discovered the st.Lawrence River

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Jacques Cartier

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He claimed the Mississippi River and the land it drained

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Robert de La Salle

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He offered proof that the lands were not the Orient but instead a new world

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Amerigo Vespucci

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He discovered the adobe villages of the Pueblo Indians

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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

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This explorer laid claim to the Atlantic coast of North America for England

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John Cabot

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These types of Indians hunted buffalo, lived in tepees, and they were nomadic

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The Plains Indians

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These types of Indians lived in cedar houses (wooden planks) in permanent villages they had abundant food. They are also known for there totem poles they raised in their villages

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West coast Indians

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These types of Indians lived in tepees, brush huts, and hogans. They also hunted buffalo and they are nomadic They also had petroglyphs which means rock drawings that showed lifestyle.

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The great basin and plateau Indians

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These types of Indians hunted, fished, and planted maize, squash, and tobacco. they built houses in permanent villages. They lived in wigwams

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Woodland Indians

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What king and queen gave Colubus support for his voyage

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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

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16
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What explorer was the Americas named after

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Amerigo Vespucci

17
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Indian tribes that moved from place to place had what kind of lifestyle

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Nomadic

18
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What year was Jamestown founded

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1607

19
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What did the Frenchmen who came to North American want to trade

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Tools, clothing, axes, and pots

20
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What is another name for Norsemen

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Viking

21
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What kind of crop became profitable for the jamestown settlers

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Tobacco plant

22
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The belief that spirits live in natural objects and rule natural events

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Animism

23
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Who was the English noble who organized an unsuccessful colony called the lost colony on roanoake island

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Sir Walter Raleigh

24
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Who opened the door for European exloration in the New world

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Christopher Columbus

25
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What European reached America before Columbus died

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Leif Ericson

26
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During the late 1400s Europeans desired spices from where

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The Orient

27
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The Reformation turned what country to Protestantism

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England

28
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What Country explored and settled the land by the St.Lawrence River

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France

29
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What were some of the significant achievements of the Jamestown settlement

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It established the first representative law making body in America. It developed a crop that it could raise and sell to Europe. It was the first permanent English settlement in the New world.

30
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Who were the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown

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Indentured servants

31
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What group of English captains struck at Spanish harbors and ships

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Sea dogs

32
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Which group of Indians lived near the Jamestown settlement

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Woodland Indians

33
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What did the Virginians call their first representative assembly

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House of Burgesses

34
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What type of conquestadors spread the Roman Catholic religion as they explored the New World

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Spaniards

35
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What was the Spanish Armada

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a Spanish naval invasion force sent to England by Philip II of Spain in 1588.

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