New Spain
What were these Spanish 'conquerors' called, who came to the Americas in the 1500s?
Conquistadors
Spanish towns that were centers of farming and trade
Pueblos
Europeans wanted to discover a shorter waterway through or around North America. This was called a ...
northwest passage
In 1626 he led a group of Dutch settlers to the mouth of the Hudson River; he bought Manhattan Island from local Indians
Peter Minuit
In 1585 about 100 men set sail across the Atlantic and landed on what island, off the coast of current day North Carolina?
Roanoke Island
Which conquistador defeated the Aztecs?
Hernando Cortes
Forts where soldiers lived
presidios
An Italian, sailing for England, who discovered modern day Newfoundland, Canada
Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot)
Minuit's settlement on Manhattan Island was called
New Amsterdam
The colony established on Roanoke Island is referred to as the ...
lost colony
Which conquistador defeated the Inca?
Francisco Pizarro
Top class in the Spanish social hierarchy
peninsulares
First permanent French settlement in North America
Port Royal
The entire Dutch settlement was called
New Netherland
A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
charter
What were some of the things the Spanish sought in the Americas?
Convert people, gold, glory
People born in the Americas to parents of Spanish origin
creoles
Founder of first permanent French settlement in North America, who three year later founded what would become Quebec
Samuel de Champlain
New Netherland is today called
New York
Name of the company that in 1606 received permission from King James I to settle lands along the eastern coast of North America.
the Virginia Company of London
Priest who was troubled by the Spanish treatment of Indians, and suggested that Africans be brought as slaves to provide labor.
de Las Casas
mestizos
French colonists who lived and worked in American Indian lands beyond the French settlements; their name means what?
coureurs de bois; runners of the woods
One of the main products the Dutch and French wanted to profit from
furs / the fur trade
Representitives to the government were called
burgesses