Vocabulary
Rebellion of a ship’s crew against the captain
What is mutiny?
Juan Ponce de León
Who searched for the mythical Fountain of Youth?
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Which Italian sailor was hired by France to find the Northwest Passage?
Henry Hudson
Which English explorer sailed up what became the Hudson River?
Spain
Which country was the first to send explorers to the Americas?
Relying chiefly on agriculture and farming
What does agrarian mean?
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Who founded St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement in the U.S.?P
Jacques Cartier
Which French explorer sailed up the St. Lawrence River and claimed land for France?
Russia (Vitus Bering)
The Bering Sea near Alaska is named for an explorer from which country?
Cheaper spices, gold, and spreading Catholicism
What were the three main forces driving European exploration?
A system of trade that uses money
What is a monetary economy?
Hernando de Soto
Who was the first European to see the Mississippi River?
Samuel de Champlain
Who founded the city of Quebec in 1608?
Juan Ponce de León
Which explorer first arrived in the Americas while sailing with Columbus?
St. Augustine, Florida
Where was the first permanent European settlement in North America?
A chain of islands
What is an archipelago?
Juan de Oñate
Who was sent to find the mythical Seven Cities of Cíbola?
Father Jacques Marquette & Louis Jolliet
Which two French explorers traveled along the Mississippi River and built settlements?
He thought he was in the East Indies
Why did Columbus call the inhabitants of Hispaniola “Indians”?
Other European nations began exploring the Americas
What was a result of Spanish exploration and colonization?Other European nations began exploring the AmericasName one negative and one positive impact of European settlement on Indigenous peoples.Negative: Diseases, loss of land/resources | Positive: New tools and trade goods
An imagined water route through North America to Asia
What was the Northwest Passage?
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda
Which Spanish explorer first mapped the Gulf Coast?
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
Who founded New Orleans in 1718?
Roanoke (The “Lost Colony”)
Which English attempt at colonization failed before Jamestown?
Name one negative and one positive impact of European settlement on Indigenous peoples.
Negative: Diseases, loss of land/resources | Positive: New tools and trade goods