America from Exploration through Colonization

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Explorers Important People

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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from H1

This Spanish explorer conquered the Native Americans of modern day Mexico?

$100 Answer from H1

Who is Christopher Columbus?

$200 Question from H1

Spanish explorer conquered the Native Americans of modern day Mexico.

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Who is Hernan Cortes?

$300 Question from H1

This Spanish explorer set out to explore the northern area of Mexico and the southwestern area of modern day United States.

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Who is Francisco Vazquez de Cornado?

$400 Question from H1

This Spanish explorer searched for the Fountain of Youth and discovered Florida.

$400 Answer from H1

Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?

$500 Question from H1

This Spanish explorer explored southeast United States and traveled through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.

$500 Answer from H1

Who is Hernando de Soto?

$100 Question from H2

He was the Indian chief who captured John Smith.

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Who is Powhatan?

$200 Question from H2

She was the daughter of chief Powhatan and married Virginia colonist John Rolfe.

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Who is Pocahontas?

$300 Question from H2

He was the captain who took over Jamestown in 1607 and was captured by Chief Powhatan.

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Who is John Smith?

$400 Question from H2

He cross-bred tobacco seeds and ended up marrying Pocahontas, chief Powhatan’s daughter.

$400 Answer from H2

Who is John Rolfe?

$500 Question from H2

These people were banished by the Puritans for criticizing the colony’s policies and leadership.

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Who was Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams?

$100 Question from H3

This was England’s first surviving English colony founded in 1607.

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What is Jamestown?

$200 Question from H3

These colonies were formed for religious reasons.

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What are the New England colonies?

$300 Question from H3

This is the colony formed by Pilgrims who traveled there on the Mayflower.

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What is Plymouth?

$400 Question from H3

Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York make up this region of colonies.

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What are the Middle Colonies?

$500 Question from H3

Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia make up this region of colonies.

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What are the Southern Colonies?

$100 Question from H4

Group of religious reformers who fled England to seek religious freedom; established first permanent colony in New England at Plymouth in what is now Massachusetts

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Who are the Pilgrims?

$200 Question from H4

Spanish military leaders who conquered the Native Americans of Central and South America

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Who are conquistadors?

$300 Question from H4

Disease caused by the lack of ascorbic acid (or vitamin C), characterized by spongy gums, loosening of teeth, and bleeding skin and mucous membranes

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What is scurvy?

$400 Question from H4

The time period in North America before the discovery of the New World by Columbus

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What is the pre-Columbian era?

$500 Question from H4

War betweetn England and France from 1754 to 1763 for control of North America that eliminated France as a rival in North America; known in Europe as Seven Years’ War

$500 Answer from H4

What is the French and Indian War?

$100 Question from H5

A crop grown by a farmer for sale, not personal use

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What is a cash crop?

$200 Question from H5

Refers to a region that can produce a lot of food and provide it to others

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What is the breadbasket?

$300 Question from H5

Economic system based onmaking money by growing crops

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What is an agrarian economy?

$400 Question from H5

People who agreed to work for employers for a certain period of time, often in return for travel expenses, shelter, and food

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Who are indentured servants?

$500 Question from H5

A business in which individuals invest their money for a common purpose

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What is a joint-stock company?

Final Jeopardy

An island off the northeast coast of North Carolina; site of the English settlement founded in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh that disappeared without a trace

Final Jeopardy Answer

What is Roanoke Island?