Colonies and Settlement
England’s first permanent settlement in the Americas
What is Jamestown, Virginia
The first European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean
Who is Vasco Núñez Balboa ?
The ocean Portugal reached from the Persian Gulf by controlling the Strait of Hormuz
What is the Indian Ocean?
Spanish people born in the Americas
Who are the Criollos ?
Prince Henry built his school in
What is 1419?
The region where dissenters seeking religious freedom settled
What is the New England Colonies
The Portuguese explorer who found a direct sea route to India across the Indian Ocean
Who is Vasco da Gama ?
The two countries that agreed to divide the New World in the Treaty of Tordesillas
Native Americans were promised this in return for for forced labor
What is protection from their enemies?
The war in which France and Native Americans fought England
What is the French and Indian War?
The Middle Colonies were best known for
What is religious tolerance
The three main reasons Europeans explored new lands
What is Gold, God, and Glory ?
The company that became the first to sell shares of stock
What is The Dutch East India Company ?
The system that forced Native Americans to labor for Spanish landowners
What is the encomienda system ?
A devastating effect of the Columbian Exchange on Native Americans
What are diseases that killed millions of Native Americans?
The Southern Colonies differed from New England in this way
What is they relied on captive labor and cash-crop agriculture ?
An expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan was the first to accomplish
What is circumnavigating the world?
The Portuguese had a special incentive to explore the Atlantic Ocean because
What is geography separated them from Mediterranean trade?
Two Spanish conquistadors and the empires they conquered ?
Who is Cortes conquered the Aztecs and Pizarro conquered the Incas ?
The three ships Columbus sailed on his first voyage
What is the The Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María?
The key difference between French and English colonists
What is the French had better relations with Native Americans?
The goal Christopher Columbus hoped to achieve on his voyages
What is finding a western sea route to Asia ?
Portugal’s major trade advantage from controlling the Strait of Hormuz
What is enabling Portugal to charge Muslim traders a fee for passage to India?
The full social hierarchy from highest to lowest
Who are the Peninsulares, Criollos, Mestizos, Indigenous people and African slaves?
The Columbian Exchange linked
What is the "Old World" with the "New World"