Vocabulary
Colony
What is a community ruled by another country?
Rulers of Spain wanted a shorter route to the East Indies for this.
What is silk and spices?
It would lead them through North America to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Sailed for Spain and claimed land in Florida. Killed many Native Americans.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
Harrisburg
What is the capital of Pennsylvaniz?
conquistador
What is a Spanish explorer who came to the Americas in the 1500s?
The reason a colony is different from other places in which people settle,
What is it is ruled by another country?
Sailed for Spain and found land in Hispaniola.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Sailed for Spain, wanted to find riches, killed many Native Americans in Mexico.
Who is Cortes?
Juneau
What is the capital of Alaska?
Northwest Passage
What is what many European explorers sought out as a route across the northern part of North America?
Searched for the Fountain of Youth
Who is Ponce de Leon?
Sailed for England and found land along the Canadian coast.
Who is John Cabot?
He sailed for France and claimed Quebec and the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Cartier?
Boise
What is the capital of Idaho?
What is a sickness that can pass quickly from one person to another?
Fought the Aztecs in Mexico
Who is Hernando Cortes?
Explored what is now the southwestern United States.
Who is Coronado?
Sailed for Spain and was tricked into looking for the Seven Cities of Gold.
Who is Coronado?
Augusta
What is the capital of Maine?
East Indies
What is Southeast Asia, including Indonesia and Malaysia?
The reason many Native Americans died.
What is they were exposed to contagious diseases that spread quickly.
The River La Salle explored.
What is the Mississippi River?
Sailed for England and the Netherlands and sailed into a bay near New York?
Who is Henry Hudson?
Dover
What is the capital of Delaware?