Spanish & Mexican Exploration
These Spanish explorers came to conquer and claim land in the New World after Columbus’s death.
Who were the Conquistadors?
This French explorer discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Who was Jacques Cartier?
First permanent English settlement in North America.
What was Jamestown?
Main occupation of most English colonists.
What is farming?
1765 law taxing paper goods.
What was the Stamp Act?
This is the largest island in the Caribbean Sea.
What is Cuba?
Native American tribes mostly sided with this European power during the French and Indian War.
Who were the French?
This Native American woman saved Captain John Smith.
Who was Pocahontas?
Labor system where workers exchanged years of work for passage.
What is indentured servitude?.
A Group that organized resistance to British rule.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This poor Aztec peasant and this holy figure are associated with a famous Marian apparition in Mexico.
Who were Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe?
Two French Jesuit missionaries remembered as North American martyrs.
Who were St. René Goupil and St. Isaac Jogues?
Man who introduced tobacco to Virginia.
Who was John Rolfe?
War fought between Britain and France for North America.
What was the French and Indian War?
1770 event where British soldiers fired on colonists.
What was the Boston Massacre?
This Spanish explorer led to the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernando Cortés
Founder of Quebec and known as the Father of New France.
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
Puritans followed the teachings of this reformer.
Who was John Calvin?
Region both Britain and France claimed, causing conflict.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor during this protest.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This country controlled Texas before it gained independence.
What is Mexico?
The feast day honoring the North American Martyrs.
What is October 19?
Document that established self-government for the Puritans.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
Young Virginian surveyor who gained military experience during the war.
Who was George Washington?
Colonial militia ready to fight at a moment’s notice.
Who were the Minutemen?