Three G's & Motives
These were the three main goals of European exploration: Gold, Glory, and ___________.
What is God?
This explorer reached the Caribbean in 1492 while searching for a route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This country established Jamestown in Virginia in 1607.
What is England?
These people lived in the Americas before Europeans arrived.
Who are Indigenous peoples?
This exchange moved plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Americas and other parts of the world.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Europeans wanted to find this valuable metal and other riches in the Americas.
What is gold?
This Portuguese explorer reached India by sailing around Africa.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This European country colonized Brazil.
What is Portugal?
French explorers often formed these with Indigenous nations to support trade and cooperation.
What are alliances?
The French and Dutch wanted to trade this animal product
What are Beaver furs?
European rulers wanted this because it could bring their country more power, fame, and land.
What is glory?
This French explorer explored the St. Lawrence River area of present-day Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The Dutch established this colony in the area of present-day New York.
What is New Netherland?
Spanish conquistadors often wanted gold and land. Name one harmful effect of their conquests on Indigenous peoples.
What are disease, forced labor, violence, or loss of land?
Name one animal Europeans brought to the Americas.
What are horses, cattle, pigs, or sheep?
Europeans searched for the Northwest Passage because they wanted a faster sea route to this continent's trading markets of spices.
What is Asia?
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This English company sent colonists to Virginia to establish a settlement and seek profit.
What is the London Company?
This marriage between an English colonist and Pocahontas was associated with a period of improved relations between some English colonists and the Powhatan people.
What is the marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas?
These spread by Europeans caused devastating population losses among Indigenous peoples.
What are diseases?
Name two reasons European countries wanted to colonize the Americas.
What are wealth, land, resources, trade routes, or spreading Christianity?
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca Empire in Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Compare French and English colonization. Name one major difference between their goals or settlements.
What is the French focus on fur trading and alliances versus the English focus on permanent settlements and farming?
Explain one reason Indigenous peoples might cooperate with European newcomers and one reason they might resist them.
Ex: trade or alliances for cooperation, and defending land, independence, or communities for resistance.
Explain one positive and one negative effect of the Columbian Exchange.
ex: new crops or animals spreading, and deadly diseases devastating Indigenous communities.