The Spanish
Conquistadors
What is the name we call the earliest Spanish adventurers
Escaping religious persecution
What is one reason the English came to the Americas?
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Columbian Exchange
What was the transatlantic trade from the New World to the Old World and vice versa?
Starvation
What was one danger in not knowing about the growing seasons and soil of an area?
What was the year Christopher Columbus set sail from Portugal to find a way to the east.
Pilgrims
What group of English people were escaping religious and political persecution?
Indigenous tribes on the Atlantic Seaboard
What groups of people first encountered the English settlers?
Northwest Passage
What was the route that would have connected the East Coast to the West Coast?
Bubonic Plague
What horrible infections disease killed a huge portion of the population of Europe?
God, God and Glory
What three things motivated the first Europeans to journey to the west?
Puritans
Group of English settlers who were members of a very strict Protestan sect of the Church of England
Jamestown
What colony thrived with the help of the local natives?
What is the word for trading to benefit only one's country?
Slavery
An institution where one group owns another group of people.
Aztecs, Incas and Mayas
What were the three main groups of indigenous people in Central and South America?
Pirates
What group of sailors sought to board and steal the goods that ships were carrying?
John Smith
Leader of the Jamestown Colony, worked with the natives to help the people.
Asia through the Silk Road
What was the location of many valuable trade items, which those in Europe wanted to acquire?
Extreme cold
What were weather conditions that had to be confronted by the colonists who settled in the far north?
Bartolome de Las Casas
Who was the Spanish priest who wrote of the atrocities of the early Spanish explorers?
Heresy
What word describes practices that went against the religious beliefs of a different group of people?
Tobacco
What crop was first found to be profitable on the East Coast?
The horse
A beast brought over by the Spanish, it became adopted and used by the native people.
Smallpox
What nasty disease spread from Europe to the America's which caused infectious sores all over the body?