Explorers & Voyages
He sailed west in 1492 hoping to reach Asia and instead landed in the Caribbean.
Christopher Columbus
The people Columbus first encountered in 1492, whom he mistakenly called “Indians.”
Taino
The first permanent English colony in North America founded in 1607.
Jamestown
Corn (maize), potatoes, and squash were sent from the Americas to where?
Europe, African, Asia
The war called the French and Indian War in North America was part of the larger global conflict known as the
the Seven Years’ War
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
Hernán Cortés
This deadly result of European contact greatly weakened Indigenous populations.
smallpox and other diseases
This Spanish settlement, founded in 1565, is the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the U.S.
St. Augustine
What was a result of the Columbian Exchange that helped European diets?
potatoes were introduced to Euope
Which European nation forced the French out of Florida in 1565 and built St. Augustine to protect their claim
Spain
This Italian’s book about Asia inspired Europeans to look for new trade routes.
Marco Polo
The alliance of Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca is called the:
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy
The French trading post founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608.
Choices:
Quebec
The triangular trade connected the Americas, Europe, and which continent for enslaved people?
Africa
Which treaty in 1494 divided new lands between Spain and Portugal?
the Treaty of Tordesillas
He explored the Mississippi River and named a vast territory Louisiana for King Louis XIV.
Robert Cavelier de La Salle
The Pueblo people revolted and drove out the Spanish after missionaries punished their religious leaders. This occurred in which region?
New Mexico
The Dutch settlement on Manhattan Island that later became New York was originally called:
New Amsterdam
Beaver fur trade was especially important to which colonial power in North America?
France
The English took control of New Netherland in 1664 and renamed it ?
New York
The explorer whose 1497 voyage for England led to claims in Newfoundland.
John Cabot
Historian Bartolomé de Las Casas described Europeans as like what animals “upon the fold” in his account?
wolves and tigers
The mysterious lost English colony where colonists vanished and left the carving “CROATOAN.”
Roanoke
Which crop became so valuable that it was even used as a form of money in some places?
tobacco
Which event contributed most to Europeans being able to conquer large Indigenous empires like the Aztec and Inca?
epidemic diseases and military technology?