US History Chapter 1

Moving from place to place according to seasons and availability of food and water

• nomadic

• hunters

• gatherers

• seafarers

A group of Native American peoples that inhabited the deserts of the Southwest   

• Iroquois

• Pueblo

• Mohawk

• Ottawa

A group of Native American peoples inhabiting the woodlands of the Northeast

• Iroquois

• Pueblo

• Mohawk

• Ottawa

A religious movement in the 16th century demanding change in the Roman Catholic Church and leading to Protestantism

• Reformation

• Renaissance

• Medieval

• Enlightenment

Explorer who set out for Asia (1492) to convert people to Christianity but landed in the Americas opening colonization

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando Cortes

• John Smith

The 1494 treaty in which Spain & Portugal agreed to divide the lands of the Western Hemisphere between them

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Paris Peace Treaty

 The transfer of plants, animals, & diseases between the Western & Eastern Hemispheres (beginning with Columbus’ first voyage)

• Silk Road

• Columbian Exchange

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

A Spaniard who traveled to the Americas as an explorer & conqueror in the 16th century

• pilot

• conquistador

• pirate

• expeditioner

Spanish explorer who set out (1519) to Mexico with the intention of overthrowing Montezuma/Aztecs & claiming most of the land

• Hernando Cortes

• Christopher Columbus

• George Glass

• Amerigo Vespucci

Aztec emperor; ruled during confrontations with Cortes

• Montezuma

• Quetzalcóatl

• Pocahontas

• Chief Metacom