French Settlement
Founder of New France.
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
Major French port in Louisiana.
What is New Orleans?
Who funded Columbus's journeys to the Americas?
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?
First person credited with circumnavigating the world.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
Three sisters farming.
What is maize, squash, and beans?
The mythical water route to Asia through N. America.
What was the Northwest Passage?
Person who controlled the government in New France.
What is an intendant?
Place where Columbus first landed.
What is the Bahamas?
Likely provided the inspiration for the name America.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
Sun-dried brick.
What is adobe?
Jacques Cartier claimed what body of water for France.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
Sacred structures of the Pueblo.
What are kivas?
First settlement created by Columbus in 1493.
What is Hispaniola?
Conquered the Aztecs in Mexico.
Who was Cortes?
Led a rebellion of the Pueblo against Spanish rule in 1680.
Who was Pope?
Children born to French and Indian parents.
Who are metis?
Loose alliance of five tribes in the Great Lakes region?
What is the Iroquois League?
This event unified the kingdom of Spain.
What was the Reconquista?
Conquered the Inca in Peru?
Who was Pizzaro?
Spanish forts constructed near missions.
What are presidios?
French traders who lived in the woods and often married Indian women.
Who were coureurs de bois?
Spain and Portugal divided the new world on a north-south line through the Azores Islands.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Children of mixed Spanish and Native ancestry.
Who are mestizos?
He followed the Mississippi River until reaching the Gulf of Mexico in 1682.
Who was Robert de La Salle?
A king-appointed administrator of a county, country, or area.
What is a viceroy?