First Americans
European Motives For Exploration
Spanish Conquest
Other Countries Compete
African Slavery
100
These were the first people to live in North and South America
Who are the Native Americans?
100
A territory controlled by another country.
What is a colony?
100
Spanish soldiers sent to claim land in the Americas
What are conquistadors?
100
These three European countries formed settlements in North America after the Spanish
Who are the English, French, and Dutch?
100
These are large farms that grow only one crop for sale.
What are plantations?
200
Native Americans stopped migrating when they learned how to do this
What is farming?
200
His voyages led to European colonization.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
These were the motives of the Spanish conquistadors.
What are gold, glory, and god?
200
This is where France formed their settlements in North America.
What is Canada?
200
This is the voyage of Africans across the Atlantic to be sold as slaves.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
The first people to the Americas walked across this during the last Ice Age.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
300
Better maps, caravels, and compasses are example of what made exploration possible.
What is advanced technology?
300
These conquistadors conquered the Aztec and Incan empire.
Who are Hernan Cortez and Francisco Pizzaro?
300
He was sent to establish a colony for England.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
300
This is where goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Europe and Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade Route?
400
This was the #1 killer of Native Americans after European contact.
What is smallpox?
400
This was the primary motive for European exploration to the Americas before Columbus's discovery.
What is a sea route to Asia?
400
This was the Spanish's biggest advantage in defeating the Aztec and Incan empires
What is superior weapons?
400
The search for this led to increased European exploration in the Americas.
What is the Northwest Passage?
400
This is the reason Africans were used instead of the Native Americans as slaves.
What is immunity to disease?
500
Spanish conquistadors took over these TWO great Native American civilizations.
Who were the Aztec and the Inca?
500
This is the present-day country where Columbus first landed.
What are the Bahamas?
500
He was the Aztec king who believed Cortes was a God.
Who is Moctezuma?
500
This became known as the "lost colony" because it was abandoned and the reason is still a mystery.
What is Roanoke?
500
Only 5% of all slaves went to this part of the Americas.
What is the United States?
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