Vocabulary
A sea route connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Northwest Passage?
What was John Cabot's original name before he moved to England?
What is Giovanni Caboto?
This was Sir Francis Drake's main activity during his early years at sea.
What is Pirating Spanish ships?
What happened to the Spanish Armada when it attacked England?
What is it lost about half of their ships?
What was the main difference between Spanish and English colonies?
What is English colonies focused on farming and resources?
An area of water where fish or other sea creatures are raised and Caught.
What is a fishery?
Why did John Cabot move from Spain to England?
What is to seek support for his exploration plans?
What important discovery that Sir Francis Drake made about Tierra del Fuego?
What is it was an archipelago?
What did the Spaniards demand of Queen Elizabeth?
What is return the stolen treasure and hang Sir Francis Drake?
What happened to the Roanoke Colony?
What is everyone had disappeared?
A company that raises money by selling shares, or interest in the company, in the form of stock.
What is a joint-stock market?
What did Cabot discover during his successful 1497 voyage?
What is Newfoundland?
How did Drake trick the Spanish treasure ships?
What is he used water barrels to look like a merchant ship?
The strongest naval power of the 1500's was...
What is Spain?
Who came to the rescue of the first struggling English colony?
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
A large fleet of ships.
What is an Armada
How many ships were lost in Cabot's final voyage?
What is four ships?
What is an archipelago?
What is a group of islands?
Spain was defeated by....
What is England?
What crop did the Powhatan Confederacy teach the colonist grow?
What is tobacco?
The practice of bringing people from a different country to control and settle an area that already has an indigenous population.
What is Colonization?
Where did Cabot move his family?
What is Bristol, England?
Sir Francis Drake was one of the greatest English explores that made his name as....
What is a pirate?
Who would rule the seas during the 1600 and 1700's?
What is English ships?
What group of colonists settled in Plymouth in 1620?
What are the Pilgrims?