Early Colonization
This European Empire funded Christopher Columbus's voyage westward across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Spanish Empire?
These 3 Spanish goals for colonization are often called the "3 G's"
What are God (spread religion), Glory (grow the Empire), Gold (make money)?
This root vegetable is originally from the Americas and wasn't grown in Afro-Eurasia until after the Columbian Exchange. It is used to make Vodka, and was the primary crop grown in Ireland in the 19th century.
What are Potatoes?
This European Empire was the first European country to set up settlements in the Tucson area.
What is the Spanish Empire?
The signing of this document is celebrated on July 4th in the United States of America
What is The Declaration of Independence?
Early Spanish explorers were searching the Americas for this, believing a city made of it called "El Dorado" was somewhere in the Americas.
What is Gold?
This economic system was used by European countries to maximize profit by using trade and resource extraction.
What is Mercantilism?
This region of the world provided the other two regions in the Triangular Trade system with manufactured goods like guns and cloth.
Where is Europe?
Paleoindians, or the ancestors of the Tohono O'odham and Akimel O'odham, have lived in the Tucson are for this many years.
This number is the answer to the math problem:
24 + 76 - 2 + 18 = ?
What is 116?
This treaty split the entire world in half between Spain and Portugal in 1494.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
These people settled in the Americas with the goal of converting indigenous people to Catholicism.
Who are Missionaries/ Who are Franciscan Missionaries?
This cash crop was grown in the Caribbean Sea and in Brazil on plantations. It was extremely profitable and used immense amounts of slave labor.
What is sugar?
This is the name of the Tohono village which Tucson is named after.
What is Cuc-Son?
Slavery was outlawed in the USA in the 1860's by the 13th amendment in every situation except this one.
What is imprisonment/ What is punishment for a crime?
This South American country was colonized by Portugal. It still speaks the Portuguese language today.
Where is Brazil?
This group of Christianity split off from the Catholic Church in the 16th century. It became the dominant kind of Christianity in Britain, Germany, and later the United States of America.
What is Protestantism/ Who are Protestants?
This system of slavery involved enslaved people being considered property, enslaved people's children automatically being considered slaves, and only African people being enslaved in this way.
What is Chattel Slavery?
This building is the oldest European building in the Tucson area and was built in 1692.
What is the Mission San Xavier del Bac?
The first constitution of the United States had this name. It lasted from 1781 to 1789.
What is the The Articles of Confederation?
This Indigenous group were the first Indigenous people that Christopher Columbus came into contact with. They lived all over the Carribean Sea.
Who are the Taino?
This European Country colonized Quebec, Louisiana, and Haiti.
What is France?
By 1860, the population of Enslaved people in the United States was this.
What is 4 million / What is 13% of the population?
A man named Hugo O'Connor was the Spanish Officer who founded the Presidio San Augustin Del Tucson in 1776. He was born in which country?
Where is Ireland?
This is Mr. Rossi's favorite kind of dessert.
What is Tiramisu?