Week 4: Native American and their Encounters with the European Explorers

Why did Juan Ponce de León, Hernando de Soto, and Vasco Núñez 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 nations

What is one similarity Ponce de León, 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
• immigration and assimilation
• earthquakes and crop failures
• disease and war

The Cherokee did not live in Alabama.

• True
• False

The Cherokee got their meat and clothing from __________ and __________.

• bobcat; stoat
• turkey; bear
• mountain lion; antelope
• lemure; manatee

Which area was sacred to the Choctaw?

• the Mother Mound
• the Cave of Dreams
• the Father Land
• 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

Andrew Jackson and the Muscogee signed a treaty that gave land to the European settlers.

• True
• False

The Choctaw settled arguments by playing __________.

• Stickball
• Baseball
• Football
• Horseshoes