Spanish Explorers
This conquistador sailed for the New World at the age of 19. He defeated the Aztecs and claimed Mexico for Spain.
Who is Hernán Cortes?
These joint monarchs in Spain sponsored the voyages of the Italian Christopher Columbus.
Who are Ferdinand II and Isabella I?
This man brought a Viking longboat full of 90 men and women from Iceland to the New World nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Who is Leif Erikson?
This is the name of the first permanent English Colony in the New World. It was named after the Monarch of England at the time of its founding in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
One of these once spanned the Bering Strait from what is now Russia into what is now Alaska. The first peoples to populate the Americas crossed it.
What is a land bridge?
Francisco Pizzaro defeated the Incas and founded the City of the Kings on the Feast of Epiphany. Ciudad de los Reyes is now known as this.
What is Lima?
This great queen was instrumental in beginning English exploration to the New World. She supported Sir Walter Raleigh's efforts to send explorations to the Americas.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
An Italian merchant who wrote a letter in Latin to the Medici family. This letter became so popular in Europe that this man's name has been attached to the two continents in the Western Hemisphere.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Blown off course and landing far north of their intended destination, the Pilgrims wrote the Mayflower Compact which governed their colony at Plymouth in what is now this state.
What is Massachusetts?
The wife of John Rolfe. After her instrumental role in securing peace between the English settlers in Virginia and the Algonkian chief Powhatan, she was baptized and given the name Rebecca.
Who is Pocahontas?
What is the Mississippi?
King Philip of Spain sent this to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and restore a Catholic ruler over England. It was defeated by Sir Francis Drake in a series of battles stretching all the way around the British Isles.
What is the Spanish Armada?
Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe this gulf and river. The French claim to this gulf and this river led to the creation of what is now Canada.
What are the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River?
King Charles II granted the Carolina's to eight of these. Only one of these (Granville) retained his interest and became the owner of one of the largest private estates ever controlled by one man.
What are Lords Proprietors?
Taken to Spain as a slave from his Patuxet tribe, this man returned to find his home village devastated by disease. He chose to help the Mayflower Pilgrims when they landed near his ruined home.
Who is Squanto?
This slave was shipwrecked in the New World, survived many years on his own, and then guided Friar de Niza to the Zuni people. He was killed by the Zuni at the end of his very long walk.
Who is Esteban or Steven the Slave?
Inheriting the groundwork laid by Queen Elizabeth, this monarch of England had his name attached to the first successful English colony in the New World.
Who is King James I?
These Europeans were the first to build log cabins in the New World.
Who are the Swedish?
Creating Georgia as a military buffer between the English colonies in the north and the Spanish colony of Florida to the south, this military leader had a penchant for moralistic rules which made him unpopular with the soldiers he governed.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
At just 16 years old this Lemhi Soshone woman carried her infant son with her as she guided the Corpse of Discovery to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Sacagawea?
These mythical cities of gold were the object of Coronado's explorations into what is now the United States.
What are the Cities of Cíbola?
Struggling with religious unrest in his own country, this monarch granted a palatinate to the Catholic Lords Baltimore in the New World. His son would grant a similar piece of land to the Quaker William Penn several decades later.
Who is King Charles I?
The expulsion of the French people from this place by the British was memorialized in the epic poem Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The British renamed this place Nova Scotia and the French people who were forcibly moved to Louisiana are called Cajuns to this day.
What is Acadia?
Sir Walter Raleigh never came to the Americas himself but he did sponsor the establishment of this colony. Unfortunately the colony was lost and none of the men ever returned to England.
What is the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
His name has been immortalized in the Marine's Hymn. This was the name of the leader of the Aztecs when Cortes and other Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico.
Who is Montezuma II?