Vocab
These are soldier-adventurers:
What are conquistadors?
The name, "America", was based off this explorer:
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
These were four reasons why the Spanish easily defeated the larger Native American forces in Central & South America:
What were:
•Technology – weapons, armor, musket, cannon, horses
•Exploited Native American rivalries
•Germs, Germs, Germs
•Geographic Luck?
This French explorer founded much of what is present-day Quebec:
Who was Samuel de Chaplain?
These were negatives of the Columbian Exchange:
What were:
–Smallpox and other diseases brought to America (kills 90% of Native Americans)
–Syphilis new to Europe
–Slavery?
These are missions:
What are fort-like religious settlements built by the Spanish in New America?
Christopher Columbus made his first voyage during this year:
What was 1492?
Pizzaro & Cortes conquered these ancient American civilizations:
Who were the Inca's & the Aztec's?
New Amsterdam was founded and named after Amsterdam in The Netherlands, which is home to these people:
Who are the Dutch?
Mr. Enget is fan of this type of music:
What is rap-hip/hop?
Land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from the Native Americans:
What were encomiendas?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first European to do this:
What is set eyes on the Pacific Ocean?
Ponce de Leon was looking for the Fountain of Youth in this future U.S. state:
What is Florida?
Henry Hudson made 4 voyages up the river that was eventually named after him in this state:
What is New York?
These were the names of the ships that Columbus took on his first voyage to the New World:
What were the Nina, Pinta, & Santa Maria?
This is mercantilism:
What is an economic policy that held a nation prospered by exporting more goods to foreign nations than it imported from them?
Ferdinand Magellan, although he didn't quite make it, and his crew were the first to successfully sail around the world, which means:
What is to circumnavigate?
This Catholic priest fought for Native American rights within the encomienda system:
Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?
These were two different motivations between the French & Spanish in settling the New World:
What were:
•French explorers sought fish and furs (not gold)
•French were friendly with Natives, some lived among them?
Mr. Enget graduated high school in this year:
What was 2016?
This was a supposed sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that passed through or around North America:
What was the Northwest Passage?
These were three main goals of Columbus's 2nd, 3rd, & 4th voyages:
What was colonize, rule, plunder for gold, Christianize, find Asian mainland?
This was how the Spanish-American social classes were organized:
What was:
1. Peninsulares (born in Spain)
2. Creole (Spanish parents, born in Am.)
3.Mestizos (1 Spanish, 1 Native Am. Parent)
4. Mulatto (Spanish and African Parents)
5. African & Native American slaves?
These were five negative aspects of the European-American fur trade:
What were:
•Fur trade created alliances
•Created a desire for European goods (guns)
•Contact with disease
•Over-trapping of animals
•Native land become coveted by Europeans?
Cows, hogs, horse, chicken, wheat, rice, oats, bananas, sugar introduced to America. While corn, potatoes, chocolate, tomato were new to Europeans in this exchange:
What was the Columbian Exchange?