Early Exploration & Goals
Columbus sailed west hoping to reach this continent by finding a new route.
What is Asia (or the Indies)?
This term describes the transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people between Europe and the Americas after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This European group formed friendly relations with the Iroquois.
Who are the English?
This explorer worked for the Dutch and has a famous river named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
This type of business arrangement, where investors shared costs and profits, was used to start Jamestown.
What is a joint-stock company?
These were the main reasons Spanish Conquistadors came to the Americas, often summarized as the "Three G's."
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
European diseases had this devastating effect on Native American populations.
What is they killed millions and reduced populations drastically?
This European group became allies with the Huron people.
Who are the French?
This river is closely linked to French exploration and settlement in North America.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
This crop made Jamestown profitable, and John Rolfe introduced it.
What is tobacco?
Columbus chose to sail west because he believed this about the route to Asia.
What is it would be shorter than sailing around Africa?
This is one positive effect of the Columbian Exchange for American Indians.
What is they received new animals like horses and cattle?
These two European groups made money from the fur trade in North America.
Who are the French and the Dutch?
This river is closely linked to the Dutch in North America.
What is the Hudson River?
Pocahontas was the daughter of Chief Powhatan and affected English-Powhatan relations in this way.
She helped create peace between cultures
This resource was as valuable to the French as gold and silver were to the Spanish.
What are furs (or beaver pelts)?
This is one negative effect of the Columbian Exchange for American Indians.
What is disease, loss of land, or disruption of traditional ways?
The French-Huron alliance benefited the French in this way.
What is it gave them access to fur trading networks?
This Dutch settlement became an important city in North America.
What is New Amsterdam?
The defeat of the Spanish Armada was important for English colonization for this reason.
What is it weakened Spanish power and made England a stronger naval power?
Henry Hudson was exploring for the Dutch for this reason.
What is to find a northwest passage to Asia?
The "Three G's" that motivated European exploration stand for these three things.
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
France claimed this massive region of North America.
What is the interior/Mississippi River valley/New France?
These two French settlements on two different rivers were important to their North American empire.
What are Quebec and New Orleans?
This famous English colony mysteriously disappeared and is known as the "Lost Colony."
What is Roanoke?