Discovery of the Americas
Spanish soldiers who were sent to conquer the new lands. They also hoped to get rich!
Who are the conquistadors?
Jacques Cartier was looking for a Northwest Passage that would take him to Asia, but instead he claimed the country of ________ for the French.
What is Canada ?
John Cabot sailed to _______ and Nova Scotia just five years after Columbus landed in the Caribbean.
What is Newfoundland?
The Dutch West India Company sent Peter Minuit to build relationships with the Indians. He traded iron pots, beads and blankets worth about $24 for the island of __________.
What is Manhattan?
These two types of groups helped conquer the Spanish Borderlands and spread Christianity.
Who are soldiers (conquistadors) and missionaries?
The French had a unique relationship with the American Indians. Instead of trying to conquer the native people, they became this
What are business partners?
When John White returned to this settlement, the colonists had disappeared and only Croatan was found on a tree.
What was Roanoke?
The Dutch and later British worked with this Indian Confederacy and supported them with the weapons they needed to stand up to the Huron.
Who are the Iroquois?
While Christopher Columbus was from Italy, his expeditions were funded by the ____________.
Who are the Spanish?
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was looking for gold, but instead found these ________ .
What are little villages or pueblos?
The American Indians taught these men the skills they would need to trap beavers.
Who are the coureurs de bois?
This leader threatened that if you didn’t work, you shouldn’t eat.
Who is John Smith?
The new name for New Amsterdam when it was taken over in 1664.
What is New York?
This term describes the transfer of people, plants, animals and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Some of the Aztecs thought he was a hero, until he used native tensions and smallpox to defeat them. He tore down their temples and used the stones to build Mexico City.
Who is Cortes?
In 1637, Father Marquette and Louis Joliet hoped the Mississippi River would lead to Asia. They were disappointed when they found out that the Mississippi River led to this body of water. (Think major body of water below Louisiana.)
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Their relationship (two people) helped end the conflict between the Jamestown settlers and the American Indians.
Who are John Rolfe and Pocahontas?
Under Peter Stuyvesant or “Peg Leg Pete” this country's colony grew to almost 8,000 diverse people and was called New Amsterdam.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant or “Peg Leg Pete”?
The Spanish settlers started bringing African slaves to the Americas because the indigenous (native people were dying from this
What are European diseases?
This conquistador defeated the Incas in Peru, but it helped that smallpox had killed thousands of Incas before he arrived.
Who is Pizarro?
Symbolizing their friendship the Frenchman, Champlain helped the Huron defeat this enemy.
Who are the Iroquois Indians?
When the British took over ______ _______, this King renamed it _____ ______to honor his brother, the Duke of York.
What is New Amsterdam and New York?
The Dutch settlement was surrendered to this country without a single shot being fired.
What is England?