Vocab
Explorers
Land Claims
Native American Effects
Motivations
100

What is Trade

The buying and selling of goods and services

100

What year did Christopher Columbus sail the ocean blue?

1492

100

Which Country claimed all of Central America, Mexico, and most of South America

Spain

100

What was the deadliest weapon against Native American peoples?

Disease

100

What are the Three Gs?

Glory, God, and Gold

200

This is a northern ocean trade route around North America that connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Northwest Passage

200

What was Hernando de Soto the first European explorer to do?

See the Mississippi River

200

Which Country settled and claimed the East coast of the United States and parts of Canada?

England

200


Why did European powers send missionaries on their expeditions for exploration and colonization?

Convert Natives to Christianity

200

What was the main motivation behind European exploration in the new world?

New Trade Routes and Wealth

300

Something influential related to the availability of resources, employment opportunities, or trade patterns is a(n)

Economic Factor

300


What industry was developed by the French as a result of Jacques Cartier’s claims around the Gulf of St. Lawrence?

Fur Trade

300

Which Country Settled in most of what is now Brazil

Portugal

300

What was the role of the appointed governors in the new world?

Oversee day to day life in the colonies on behalf of the monarchs

300

Did they find gold in the new world?

No

400


The policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, military force, or other means is called...

Imperialism

400

Which European explorer discussed in chapter 1 found the Northwest Passage

No one

400

Which Country established trading posts in modern day Quebec?

France

400

The Columbian Exchange was the widespread exchange of animals, plants, technology, ideas, cultural practices, and diseases between WHO?

The Old and New Worlds

400

Mercantilism was a motivation for which European country during the Age of Exploration?

England

500

Something influential related to governmental leadership or citizens' lives or rights is a(n)

Political Factor

500

Where was the land that Henry Hudson claimed for the Netherlands and England?

northeastern United States and southeastern Canada

500

Which country did Henry Hudson claim land for in modern day New York?

Netherlands

500

How did Native American languages die out?

Europeans forced natives to use their languages instead of the native language.

500

Who was the first to sail and try to find the Northwest Passage?

John Cabot