Important People
Italian explorer and colonizer. While attempting to prove a westward sea route for East Asian trade existed, he stumbled across the Bahamas in October 1492. The first European to visit the islands of Hispaniola and Cuba.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Following Columbus’ colonizers bringing goods, materials, diseases, etc to the New World, this was made to export and import people and things between the Old World and the New World.
What is the establishment of the Columbian Exchange?
“...I gave them many beautiful and pleasing things, which I had brought with me, for no return whatever, in order to win their affection, and that they might become Christians and inclined to love our King and Queen and Princess and all the People of Spain; and that they might be eager to search for and gather and give to us what they abound in and we greatly need.”
What is Christopher Columbus’s letter to Ferdinand and Isabella?
People in the Americas who would hunt for animals and gather plants, seeds, nuts, and berries to survive.
What are hunter-gatherers?
Most Europeans generally viewed these people as inferior people who could be exploited for economic gain, converted to Christianity, and used as military allies.
Who are the Native Americans?
First person to cultivate tobacco in the colonies and helped economic growth.
Who is John Rolfe?
First permanent English settlement in the Americas. Established in 1607 and named after King James of England.
What is the creation of Jamestown?
“And all lands, both islands and mainlands, found and discovered already, or to be found and discovered hereafter, by the said King of Portugal and by his vessels on the said line and bound determined as above, toward the east, in either north or douth latitude, on the eastern side of the said bound…”
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
System made to gain wealth through trade.
What is Mercantilism?
The first permanent settlement of a European nation in the present-day United States.
What is St. Augustine?
First Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Francis Drake?
John White, accompanied by a group of more than 100 men, women, and children, set off with the goal of establishing the first permanent English settlement.
What is Roanoke Colony?
Letter written on the behalf of King Charles V of Spain by Francisco Garcia de Loaysa that authorized an explorer to go North.
What is the Authorization of Conrado’s conquest?
System used during Spanish colonization that controlled Native-American labor.
What is the Encomienda System?
The first record of slave voyage from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Event that started after Martin Luther posted his 95’ thesis on the door of a church in 1517.
What is the Protestant Reform?
Document of regulations approved by the King of Spain in November of 1542 to regulate the Spaniards who were enslaving Indigenous people in the Americas.
What is The New Laws?
Political system where people worked the land in exchange for food and protection.
What is Feudalism?
This theory asserts that colonies are established to maximize the trade of a nation and aid in the accumulation of Gold and Silver.
What is Mercantilism?
Spanish priest who called out and reported the mistreatment and abuse of Native Americans during the first years of Spanish colonization.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
Led by Cabeza de Vaca in 1527, a search for more land and ended with exploration of East Texas.
What is the Narvaez Expedition?
“that the conquests of the Indies against the Indians were lawful; and the bishop, on the contrary, contended and affirmed them to have been, and it was impossible for them not to be, tyrannies, unjust and iniquitous. Year 1552”
What is the De Las Casas v. De Sepulveda Debate?
Highest level of absolute power through control of independent states by a political authority.
What is Political Sovereignty?
Previous to the Treaty between Portugal and Spain, they created this, drawn by the Pope to divide colonial conquests between the two.
What is the Line of Demarcation?