Vocabulary
to travel around something in a ship
circumnavigate
The country Christopher Columbus sailed on behalf of
Spain
Circumnavigated the world
Drake
John Rolfe smuggled this into the colony which later became it's cash crop
tobacco seed
Name two things that Cartier discovered.
St. Lawrence River, Canada
a name one receives in Baptism'; one's name apart from his family or last name
Christian name
Spanish explorer who found Mexico
Cortes
-led 121 men and women on a second trip to Virginia- landed at Roanoke Island
John White
Give one reason that the first settlement at Roanoke Island failed
-it was too late plant crops
-Lane’s attitude angered the Indians (Native Americans)
What were the two goals of Spanish exploration?
-convert the natives to the Catholic faith
-win kingdoms and wealth for the Spanish monarchs
a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water
strait
traveled to the New World with Columbus in 1493
Ponce de Leon
removed the French Huguenots from La Florida
de Aviles
Name three problems with Spanish settlements in La Florida.
-diseases
-Indians mistreated
-Indians found it hard to accept morality
In 1646, tortured and killed by the Iroquois on the Mohawk River in New York state.
Isaac Jogues
someone who invests money in something
speculator
Sailed to Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi
de Soto
Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore Virginia
Raleigh
What three things did Coronado discover in his three expeditions?
Colorado River Rio Grande
Grand Canyon
wanted to establish a New World Paris but he never got around to doing so, but others would do so, calling it Nouvelle-Orleans- New Orleans.
de La Salle
a representative sent by a king or queen to rule a territory in his or her own name
viceregal
he first landed on what is now North Carolina, then became the first to set foot on New York harbor.
Verrazzano
attempted a settlement in what the French called L’Acadie (Nova Scotia and Maine)
de Champlain
What regions were called New France?
Great Lakes, north into Canada, and south into the regions now divided by the states of New York, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Why did Jamestown struggle the first year of its settlement?
-lands around the James River were swampy and fevers killed many
-Algonquin people were angered by the way they were treated and often tried attack them
-the colony was not providing wealth that was expected