Vocabulary Voyage
A settlement controlled by a country in another region.
What is a colony?
This explorer reached the Caribbean in 1492 while trying to reach Asia.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This trade in animal pelts was central to both French and Dutch colonial economies.
What is the fur trade?
Founded in Virginia in 1607, this was England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Europeans wanted a direct sea route to this continent to obtain spices, silk, and other valuable goods.
What is Asia?
This Spanish military fort protected settlements and land claims.
What is a presidio?
This conquistador led the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire with help from Native allies.
Who was Hernán Cortés?
Samuel de Champlain founded this settlement along the St. Lawrence River in 1608.
What is Quebec?
This deserted settlement became known as the “Lost Colony.”
What is Roanoke?
Growing this cash crop brought Jamestown income and increased demand for land and labor.
What is tobacco?
Europeans searched for this hoped-for water route through North America to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This conquistador led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire in South America.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
Exploring for the Dutch in 1609, this man sailed along the river that now bears his name.
Who was Henry Hudson?
This Jamestown leader enforced work rules and traded with Native peoples for food.
Who was John Smith?
Differences over whether land could be permanently sold or shared help explain disagreements about the Dutch agreement involving this island.
What is Manhattan?
This exchange moved plants, animals, diseases, and goods between the Americas and the Eastern Hemisphere.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
While searching for legendary cities of gold, this explorer traveled through the Southwest and Great Plains.
Who was Francisco Vásquez de Coronado?
This alliance of Native nations traded furs with the Dutch for manufactured goods.
What was the Iroquois Confederacy?
During this winter of 1609–1610, hunger, disease, and conflict killed most of Jamestown’s remaining colonists.
What was the Starving Time?
John White found this word carved into a post when he returned to Roanoke in 1590.
What is “CROATOAN”?
These French fur traders had a name meaning “runners of the woods.”
Who were the coureurs de bois?
Founded by Spain in 1565, this Florida city is the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in what is now the United States.
What is St. Augustine?
In 1682, La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France and gave it this name.
What is Louisiana?
This colonist developed Virginia’s profitable tobacco crop and married Pocahontas in 1614.
Who was John Rolfe?
Historians question this man’s famous rescue story because he recorded it years later and it lacks independent confirmation.
Who was John Smith?