The Impact of Colonization
This journey forcibly transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This explorer is credited with discovering the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was the main economic activity of the French in North America.
What is the fur trade?
The reason why France established North American colonies in the 1600s.
What is trading posts?
This exchange brought new crops, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Spanish explorers seeking to conquer the Americas were known by this term.
What are conquistadors?
The defeat of this navy in 1588 shifted naval supremacy from Spain to England.
What is the Spanish Armada?
The reason why Europeans explorers searched through the Northwest Passage.
what is discover a new sea route to Asia?
These were the two continents primarily involved in the Columbian Exchange.
What are Europe and the Americas?
This was the capital of the Aztec Empire, conquered by Hernando Cortés.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This English privateer turned Pirate helped the English Navy defeat the Spanish Armada.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
The initial reason why many Europeans explores sailed to the Americas.
What is the finding a new trade route to Asia?
This deadly disease from Europe had devastating effects on Native American populations.
What is smallpox?
This deadly disease brought by the Spanish helped lead to the collapse of the Aztec Empire.
What is smallpox?
This sought-after passage was a water route through North America to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Proclamation of 1763 limit the area of colonists, no one can move past this geographical location.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
European colonists sought this precious metal, often forcing indigenous populations to mine for it.
What is gold?
This 1494 agreement divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This explorer sailed for both the Dutch and English, discovering the river and bay that bear his name.
Who is Henry Hudson?
Best Colony/Colonies to start a tobacco farm.
what is Virginia/middle colonies?
Colonization led to the establishment of these large-scale agricultural estates in the Americas.
What are plantations?
This European economic theory saw colonies as sources of raw materials and markets for finished goods.
What is mercantilism?
This explorer landed in Newfoundland while searching for the Northwest Passage.
Who is John Cabot?
King George established a tax on paper products in 1765.
This term describes the forced migration of African slaves to work in the New World.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
This explorer attempted to reach Asia by sailing around South America, though he didn’t survive the journey.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This French explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River and reached present-day Montreal.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The war that caused King George to place multiple Taxes on the colonist after the war was over.
What is the French-Indian War?
This labor system forced indigenous people to work for the Spanish in harsh conditions.
What is the encomienda system?
This Spanish conquistador defeated the Inca Empire in what is now Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
In 1608, this explorer founded Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in North America.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
The individual on the 100 dollar bill.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?