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Columbus
New Spain
New France
Competition in the Colonies
Religion's Role
100
Columbus intended on traveling west from Europe to reach this location.
Asia
100
This is the term for a soldier-adventurer who seeks to explore a new land.
Conquistador
100
Describe interactions between the French and Native Americans.
Peaceful: they would trade, work, and live together.
100
This is the name for the system that believes that colonies exist to make the home country right.
Mercantilism
100
This is the term for a settlement established to help convert people to Christianity.
Mission
200
Columbus originally approached the king and queen of this leading seafaring nation and asked them to finance his voyage; he was denied.
Portugal
200
This is the name of the system that gave land grants to Native Americans in exchange for labor or taxes.
Encomienda
200
Coureurs de bois, or _______________, were independent traders who often lived with Native Americans.
Runners of the woods
200
New Netherland was renamed ___________ when it was taken over by the ___________.
New York, English.
200
This ruler decided to become a Protestant so that he could divorce his wife.
Henry VIII
300
This is the nickname that Columbus gave to the land that he discovered.
The West Indies
300
This conquistador, who traveled from Cuba to Florida, was the first Spaniard to set foot in what is now the United States.
Ponce de Leon
300
This explorer mapped lands by the St. Lawerence River and established a settlement called Quebec.
Samuel de Champlain
300
Many countries were looking for a northwest passage, which is __________.
A waterway through or around North America that connects the Atlantic to the Pacific.
300
Columbus gave gifts to the natives in hopes of converting them to this religion.
Christianity
400
This is why Columbus called the natives "Indians."
He thought he was in India.
400
These people, born in Spain, held the highest ranking in society in New Spain.
Peninsulares
400
Many French settlers established alliances, or ___________, with Native Americans.
Mutually-beneficial agreements
400
This exchange of goods, people, and ideas between hemispheres was the beginning of mercantilism in the colonies.
The Columbian Exhcange
400
This is why the Spanish Armada attacked England.
It wanted to force Queen Elizabeth I off the throne so that England could become a Catholic nation once again.
500
This is the person who stated that Columbus had not, in fact, landed in Asia.
Amerigo Vespucci
500
This conquistador killed the leader of the Incas, despite the fact that he had received a large sum of money as ransom to free the leader.
Francisco Pizarro
500
This explorer claimed the entire Mississippi Valley in the name of King Louis XIV, naming it Louisiana.
Rene Robert Cavalier, aka La Salle
500
This explorer was sent to his death by his crew after he attempted to explore northern New York in winter, looking for a northwest passage.
Henry Hudson
500
This priest wanted to reform the encomienda system, which he saw as cruel and inhumane.
Bartolome de Las Casas