Spanish Exploration
Who discovered the New World for Spain?
He the first (Italian) explorer for the French to the New World (North America)... not looking to loot Spanish treasure ships.
Who was Giovanni Verrazzano?
This Englishman sailed around the globe first for England.
Who was Sir Francis Drake?
This punishment locked a colonist criminal's limbs in fixed positions in public where the community could see and mock him and maybe throw rotten fruit at him.
What were the stocks?
The name, in N. America, for the world conflict that spilled over into the colonies from the War for Spanish Succession.
Where did Columbus make landfall in the New World?
Guanahani or San Salvador... Bahamas
This French explorer is responsible for the fur trade from New France and for it being called Canada.
Who was Jacques Cartier?
This Italian mariner sailed for England and made its first claim on N. America right before the turn of the century (1500).
Who was Giovanni Cabotto?
This was the settlement system of New Spain in Central and South America set up by Columbus and Cortez mainly.
What was the Encomienda System or Repartimiento System (same thing, basically)?
This war was started when an English merchant/smuggler was captured in Mexico and showed a severed body part to Parliament upon returning to England.
Who defeated the Aztecs and renamed Tenochtitlan as Mexico City?
Hernan Cortez
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?
Name of two Indian uprisings in New England.
What was the Pequot War and King Philip's War (Metacom's War)?
Who were the two European countries involved in N. America's part of the Seven Years War?
Who were France and England?
This explorer searched for the Fountain of Youth and was killed for his troubles by natives from Florida.
Who was Ponce de Leon?
These two (explorers + missionary) for France went from Lake Michigan to the headwaters of the Mississippi and then down that river to the fringes of Spanish holdings and turned back.
Who were Marquette and Joliet?
This military man was responsible for a reorganization of Jamestown economy and possibly for keeping the natives from wiping out the settlement and from starving.
Who was Captain John Smith?
This French system of government in New France was quite Medieval in style and even had lords of manors and tenants.
What was feudalism?
The final outcome of the French and Indian War in terms of winner and loser, what was gained and what was lost.
France lost Canada to England. (Spain was given Florida again and the Louisiana Territories.)
This explorer was duped twice; once into looking for Cibola and again to look for Quivira.
Who was Francisco Coronado?
This aristocrat set up a fur trade empire for France (and himself) from New Orleans up the Mississippi River.
Who was Lord De la Salle?
This settlement was preceded by a signing of its members, on board ship, of the Mayflower Compact and was principally an effort based in religious freedom.
What was Plymouth, MA?
Both Jamestown and Plymouth were starving in the early months of their settlements, but due to this significant change in their economic system, they began to prosper.
What was the privatization of land/property/fields (which incentivized labor for one's own family)?
The officer who accompanied Gen. William Braddock in the French and Indian War in taking on the French at Ft. Duquesne and who witnessed the defeat of the British by the superior tactics of the French and Indians.
Who was George Washington?