Alabama Studies Weekly Week 4

Why did Juan Ponce de Leon, Hernando de Soto, and Vasco Nunez de Balboa explore the Americas?

• to make friends with the American Indians and establish trade routes

• to conquer land for Spain and find treasure

• to find a lost band of Spanish explorers

• to start their own nation

What is one similarity Ponce de Leon, de Soto, and Balboa all share?

• they were all born in the same town

• they all loved the opera

• they were all governors

• none of them were married

What were two things that almost completely destroyed some American Indian tribes during the Age of Exploration?

• drought and tornados

• earthquakes and crop failures

• immigration and assimilation

• disease and war

True or False: The Cherokee did not live in Alabama.

• True

• False

The Cherokee go their meat and clothing from _______ and ______.

• bobcat; stoat

• mountain lion; antelope

• turkey; bear

• lemure; manatee

Which area was sacred to the Choctaw?

• the Mother Mound

• the Father Land

• the Cave of Dreams

• the Head of the River

The Chickasaw people spread out during times of ________.

• war

• peace

• celebration

• drought

The Poarch Creek were from which nation?

• Cherokee

• Choctaw

• Muscogee

• Iroquois