Important People
Sailed for Spain in 1492 looking for China.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Travels looking for new lands and discoveries.
What is an explorer?
An American Indian home that is longer than it is wide.
What is a longhouse?
Why are many settlements near the ocean or water?
They were built where explorers came ashore and needed shelter. Need access to water as a resource.
Goal or reason.
What is purpose?
In 1609, ____________ discovers the Hudson River.
Who is Henry Hudson?
Explorers from Portugal, England, Spain and France were looking for a water route to where?
What is Asia?
How did the Cherokees of the Southeast use their resources?
They hunted and farmed. Used trees to build houses. Covered wooden frames with mud from nearby riverbanks.
How did the Hudson River get its name?
Who is Henry Hudson?
Is the course you take to get somewhere.
What is route?
In 1608, ________________ founds Quebec City.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
What were the reasons most European cultures wanted to settle in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean?
They wanted to claim land for their countries. They wanted to get rich.
Land that the United States set aside for Native Americans many years ago.
What is reservations?
What did the English do each time one their explorers discovered a land?
They claimed it for England.
To say that the land belongs to a certain country.
In 1535, __________ sails the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Challenges early explorers faced.
What is rough seas, sickness, people did not know if they were traveling in the correct direction?
How did some of the Native Americans cooperate with the first settlers from England?
Native Americans taught them how to plant crops and to fish in shallow water.
Who did the English believe was the first person to discover North America?
Who is John Cabot?
System of ruling people.
What is government?
In 1634, __________ explores Lake Michigan.
Who is Jean Nicolet?
Why might people have wanted to leave their own countries to explore new lands?
To look for a way to get rich or for new resources.
How did the English settlers benefit from the cooperation of Native Americans?
They learned how to grow and capture their own food.
How did European exploration affect North and South America? What happened to the land the people living there?
Settlements were started, exchange of resources, brought diseases to the Americas.
A formal agreement, or treaty, between groups to work together.
What is a confederacy.