An Era of Exploration
Spain Builds an Empire
Colonizing North America
Jamestown
Seeking Religious Freedom
100
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella financed which explorer?
Who is Christopher Columbus
100
Spanish Conquerers who marched into the Americas in the 1500s
What are conquistadors
100
Magellan was searching for this
What is the Northwest Passage
100
Jamestown colony was in this present day state
What is Virginia
100
A group of settlers seeking religious freedom, sailed on the Mayflower
Who are the Pilgrims
200
Another term for circling the globe
What is circumnavigation
200
The Aztec Emperor
Who is Montezuma
200
Two countries that colonized North America
What are England and France
200
The leader of the Jamestown settlement, kept them from starving
Who is Captain John Smith
200
This is the document that provided a framework of government for the Plymouth Colony
What is the Mayflower Compact
300
Two effects of Columbus' voyage
What are any 2 of these: Discovery of New World Encouraged more exploration Gave Spain a headstart in the New World The beginning of the end of Native American Culture Columbian Exchange
300
Two reasons the Spanish were able to conquer the Native Americans
What are that they had guns and armor, and that the Natives hesitated to attack because they thought the Spanish might be gods, the Natives died from European diseases
300
A German monk who challenged many practices of the Church in 1517
Who is Martin Luther
300
Colonists were more interested in this than in agriculture
What is gold
300
Ways that the Native Americans helped the Pilgrims survive
Squanto brought them seeds of native plants, showed them best ways to plant. Also taught them to fish for eels.
400
The global exchange of goods and ideas between eastern and western hemispheres
What is the Columbian Exchange
400
What were Ponce de Leon, Coronado and de Soto looking for?
What is the fountain of youth as well as gold and riches.
400
How did the religious differences dividing Europe affect the race for the American Colonies?
Colonists brought their religious conflicts with them and competed for control of land.
400
This is when voters elect representatives to make laws for them.
What is a representative government
400
Reason the first winter was so hard for the Pilgrims.
What is that they didn't have enough food stored, too late to plant crops and not enough time before winter to make proper shelter.
500
Two Native American influences on the rest of the world
What are new foods, crops, spices, snowshoes, canoes, how to trap beavers/other furbearing animals, and even sometimes political structures.
500
The Spanish enslaved this group first and then at the suggestion of de las Casas began this.
Who are the Native Americans and the Atlantic Slave Trade
500
How were Native Americans affected by European rivalries?
European settlers encouraged their Native American allies to attack one another. Native Americans were also displaced onto other Native lands. Europeans introduced alcohol, Christianity and firearms.
500
These ultimately saved the Jamestown colony (crop and new arrivals)
What is tobacco, women, and Africans
500
The most important precedent that the Pilgrims set up for the New World
What is religious freedom
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