| A | B |
| migrate | to move from one place and establish a home in a new place |
| natural resource | useful materials found in nature, including water, vegetation, animals, and minerals |
| culture | a people's way of life, including beliefs, customs, food, dwellings, and clothing |
| cultural region | an area in which a group of people share similar culture and langauge |
| adobe | sun-baked clay made into bricks for housing |
| Beringia | the land bridge connecting Siberia and present-day Alaska |
| Southwest | mesas, cotton clothes, apartment like houses, irrigation, clay ovens, peppers |
| Great Plains | grasslands, buffalo hunters, V shaped traps, glue, tipis, feather arrows, horses |
| Southeast | swamps, mounds, towns, blow guns, tree woven huts, deer skin skirts, jewelry |
| Eastern Woodlands | Algonquain, Iroquois, canoes, moccasins, maple syrup, long houses |
| Northwest Coast | hunted deer, harpooned seals, carved masks, bark capes, bark roof shingles |
| California | made acorn meal, grass aprons, antler tools, redwood bark and reed cone huts |
| Plateau | desert nomads, rabbit robes, duck decoys, seed beaters, willow looms |
| Great Basin | flat grasslands, underground huts, woven hats, deer skin dresses and leggings |
| Christopher Columbus | discovered an island in the Caribbean, Hispaniola, claimed it for Spain |
| Francisco Pizzaro | conquistador; attacked the Inca empire of Peru |
| John Smith | 1st governor of Jamestown |
| Hernan Cortes | conquistador; attacked the Aztecs of Mexico |
| Inca | empire was located in present-day Peru; built earthquake resistant buildings |
| Aztec | empire was located in present-day Mexico City, Mexico; believed in human sacrific |
| trappers | adventurers who capture and kill animals, such as beavers, for their fur |
| missionaries | people who travel to a territory or community in order to make converts to their religion |
| colony | new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land |
| presidios | walled forts that soldiers lived in while protecting claim in the Americas of European nations |
| conquistadors | Spanish soldier-explorers, especially those who conquered the natives of Mexico and Peru |
| French relations with natives | Successfully traded with the natives, especially furs |
| British relations with natives | Used the natives as slave labor and extorted their land |
| Spanish relations with natives | Used the natives for slave labor, but were more sucessful with missionaries |
| The British claiming Jamestown became their argument later for... | Having a claim over all of the land in the United States |
| Ralph Lane | leader of Roanoke who left for England with Drake |
| correct location of Jamestown: B |  |
| California |  |
| Great Plains |  |
| Plateau |  |
| Southeast |  |