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Governing New Spain
Other European Explorers
In The Americas
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These codes setup procedures and organized how the colony of New Spain was going to be governed.
What were the Laws of the Indies
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Magellan was able to sail west from Spain and later his crew was able to return to Spain, illustrating that sailing around the land masses to the west was possible. Other European countries like England and France were still willing to fund voyages to find this.
What is the Northwest Passage A way around the northern portion of the North American continent.
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The French and Dutch competed over this lucrative (money making) business in North America.
What is the fur trade. They were competing over control of the beaver fur trade.
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This Englishmen was no explorer, but because he was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, he was granted the right to raise the money to start a colony in the New World.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh He raised money to create the doomed colony of Roanoke.
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This English explorer discovered Newfoundland over 1,000 years after Lief Erikson.
Who is John Cabot
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These were the towns in New Spain where all trading of farm goods took place.
What were the Pueblos.
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This man originally discovered the river that now bares his name while sailing under the Dutch flag.
Who was Henry Hudson
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The Spanish government in New Spain passed these, giving the ranch, farm and mine owners the right to demand labor and taxes from the local Indians.
What were encomiendas
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In order to create the colony of Jamestown, the Virginia Company had to secure one of these from King James I.
What is a charter.
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Martin Luther inadvertently (not purposefully) started this when he nailed his list of grievances about the greed of the Catholic Church to a church door.
What is the Protestant Reformation
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These forts houses the soldiers who were charged with protecting the citizens and keeping order inside the colony.
What were Presidios.
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This French explorer claimed land for Spain and in his later voyages discovered the area above the St. Lawrence River that would late become Quebec.
Who is Samuel de Champlain
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These Frenchmen were excellent fur trappers and traders and preferred life in the forests.
Who were the coureurs de bois
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This man took the risk of supplying Jamestown with a strand of Tobacco from Spanish South America. Eventually the crop made what is the equivalent of millions of dollars for the struggling colony.
Who is John Rolfe.
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This daughter of Powhatan later married John Rlofe temporarily calming the bad blood between the colonists of Jamestown and local Indians.
Who is Pocahontas
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This Spanish priest condemned (disagreed with) the harsh treatment of the native people in the colony and advocated for their replacement with Africans who were well suited for hard labor in the hot sun.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas
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This Frenchmen continued where Marquette and Joliet left off, following the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico and naming the land Louisiana after King XIV.
Who is Robert de La Salle
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This Dutchmen bought Manhattan form local Indians and renamed it New Amsterdam. It became the business center for the entire colony of New Netherlands.
Who id Peter Minuit.
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This assembly in Jamestown was the first example of a representative government from a British colony in North America.
What is the House of Burgesses
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This is what you can do to gain an extra 10 points on tomorrow's chapter 3 unit exam.
What is make flash cards for the 14 explorers on your explorer chart.
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This group of Spanish-born people living in the colony sat atop the social hierarchy in New Spain. They had more power than the Creoles, Mestizos and of course, the Indian slaves.
What were the Peninsulares
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It was aboard this ship that Henry hudson, his son and several loyal sailors witnessed the mutiny that would lead to them being set adrift in the Hudson Bay.
What is the Half Moon.
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This was England's first attempt at a colony, but it was a bust. Still to this day no one knows exactly what happened to the colonists who inhabited this small island colony off the coast or present-day North Carolina.
What is Roanoke
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Before stepping foot on land the 41 male Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower signed this ensuring that they would work together and agree upon a set of laws which will help to make the colony a success.
What is the Mayflower Compact
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This is another way that you can assure you are prepared to get an additional 10 points on your test tomorrow.
What is study the routes of the explorers so you can identify them on the extra credit map component of the test.