Unit 2 Review: Early American Identity

The first European to arrive in the Americas.

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Eric the Red

• Christopher Columbus

• Viking Leif Ericsson

Where did Columbus believe he was when he arrived in the Americas?

• The Americas

• India

• Spain

• Latin America

Africans were brought to America when Native slaves died from _________.

• Disease

• COVID

• Led Poisoning

• Broken hearts

A policy that colonies are created to make the parent nation money.

• Colonyism

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Mercantilism

This allow people to join (pool) money together to make colonies.

• Capitalism

• Joint stock companies

• Royal colonies

• Virginia

The first successful English colony in America.

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

• Plymouth

• New Amsterdam

Jamestown was built here to protect it from Natives and the Spanish.

• Forest

• Mountain

• Plain

• Swamp

This colony had poor soil, dirty water and no food.

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

• Plymouth

• New Amsterdamn

Captain John Smith saves Jamestown with this saying

• "He that shall not work, shall not get gold!"

• "He that shall not work, shall not eat!"

• "He that denied it, supplied it!"

• "He that shall work, shall eat!"

Married Pocahontas and developed sweet tobacco, saving Jamestown.

• John Smith

• John Rolfe

• Jessie James

• John Paul