European Explorers
This city in Florida, where a statue of Ponce de Leon stands, is known as the oldest European settlement in the United States.
What is St. Augustine?
This economic activity was very important to both the French and the Dutch settlements.
What is fur trading?
This water route across the top of Canada was one of the first goals of early European explorers.
What is the Northwest Passage?
These two groups were the MOST successful in forming alliances with Indigenous people.
Who are the French and the Dutch?
This was the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The reason why most European countries sent explorers to explore and conquer new lands.
What is for profit (money)?
This colony faced severe famine, weather, and hostility from neighboring Indigenous tribes.
What is the Jamestown colony?
Converting Indigenous people to their religion was the job of which type of Spanish settler?
Conquering a large empire was the main goal of the conquistadors, who were soldiers and colonizers from this country.
What is Spain?
Smallpox (one of many diseases) affected who with the Columbian Exchange?
Who are the Indigenous people?
This English explorer sailed up the eastern coast of Canada.
Who is John Cabot?
The Lost Colony of Roanoke was this country's first attempt a colonization.
What is England?
This company sent colonists to Virginia to establish a moneymaking colony.
What is the London Company?
Marrying women, trading furs, and being business partners describes the relationship between these two groups.
What is the French and the Indigenous people?
This effect of the Columbian Exchange helped increase food variety and population growth worldwide.
What are new crops and foods?
The arrival of this English explorer helped bring order and structure to the people of Jamestown.
Who is John Smith?
New York became the name of this colony after the English took it over in 1664.
What is New Netherland?
This is considered one of the main motivations for most European Exploration.
What is power and prestige?
Europeans trapping and trading furs with Indigenous people is considered as this type of interaction.
What is a positive interaction?
This group of animals, including cows, pigs, and sheep, was brought from Europe to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange.
What is livestock?
This Spanish explorer searched for the cities of gold but was unsuccessful. He found small pueblos instead.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
The experience of being challenged by the environment is best described for these colonists.
Who are the Jamestown colonists?
These Frenchmen were fur trappers and trackers.
Who are the Coureurs de Bois?
This European explorer fired his musket upon Haudenosaunee warriors when he thought that they were making a move to fire upon him first.
Who is Samuel Champlain?
These two crops, native to the Americas, were introduced to Europe and became important food sources worldwide.
What are potatoes and corn?