Team Spain
He "sailed the ocean blue" for Spain in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The first permanent English settlement, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
The valuable wildlife product the French traded with Native Americans
What is Fur?
A document giving permission to start a colony.
What is a Charter?
This food from the Americas became a major crop in Europe.
What is the potato?
The fierce title given to Spanish conquerors like Cortés.
What is a Conquistador?
The famous "Lost Colony" that completely vanished.
What is Roanoke?
The northern river explored by Jacques Cartier.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
A religious movement in 1517, started by Martin Luther's criticisms.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This disease from Europe caused millions of Native American deaths.
What is smallpox?
The native empire conquered by Hernán Cortés in 1521.
Who were the Aztecs?
The profitable cash crop that finally made Jamestown profitable.
What is Tobacco?
Samuel de Champlain founded this major Canadian fortress city in 1608.
What is Quebec?
A separatist group that left England in the 1600s, to escape persecution.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This crop from the Americas became an important European food.
What is corn?
This global treaty split the "New World" between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The self-governing agreement signed by Pilgrims in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The vast territory claimed for King Louis XIV along the Mississippi.
What is Louisiana?
A two-house legislature.
These animals were brought to the Americas by Europeans, and transformed transportation.
What are horses?
The first explorer whose crew successfully sailed all the way around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
By defeating this massive naval fleet in 1588, England ruled the seas.
What is the Spanish Armada?
The highly sought-after, water route through North America to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans in exchange for the settlers to protect them.
What is the Encomienda System?
This crop from the Americas became extremely important for European and African economies.
What is sugar?