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Chapter 4
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This man sailed into the new world by sailing west. He was denied by the Portugesse but Spain helped him go
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This man was trying to find a Northwest Passage. He was not able to, but today has a river and a bay named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
100
This means a community of people in a new region.
What is a settlement?
100
When Columbus left Spain he was hoping to reach this place
What is Asia?
100
The Spainsh took the Africans to the Americas because they wanted them to work on a sugar ______________ in the Caribbean.
What is a plantation?
200
This man wanted to find the Fountain of Youth. He explored Florida.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
200
This man was a privateer given the title by Queen Elizabeth of Spain.
Who is Francis Drake?
200
This means the spread of disease among many people?
What is epidemic?
200
This plant was already there before the Europeans came to America. Choices (cocoa, cows, wheat, smallpox)
What is cocoa?
200
In 1609 Henry Hudson was able to claim the land for this country
What is the Netherlands or Dutch people?
300
This explorer made a voyage from England to Newfoundland
Who is John Cabot?
300
This man defeated the Aztecs. The Aztecs at first believed he was a god so Montezuma invited him and the rest of the Spanish in.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
300
This means the science of plotting and controlling the course of the ship.
What is navigation?
300
Prior to the 1500s, this country was the most powerful
What is Spain?
300
In 1519 Cortes landed on Mexico and eventually took over this people.
What is the Aztecs?
400
This man was trying to find a Northwest Passage. He only only able to find the St. Lawrence River and eventually began a settlement.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
400
This man along with Panfilo de Naraez tried to find the Seven Cities of Gold, but was unsuccessful.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
400
This means a system in which people worked without pay and had no freedom.
What is slavery?
400
The Columbian exchange involved the trading of these three things
What are people, plants and animals?
400
The Portugesse invented this to help them to know what direction they were going. This always points north.
What is the compass?
500
This man was trying to find the Northwest Passage. He was stuck in the St. Lawrence River and eventually began a settlement in modern day Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
500
This King created the Spanish Aramada to fight aganist the British navy led by Francis Drake.
Who is King Phillip?
500
This means to resist authority.
What is rebel?
500
Hernando de Soto traveled throughout the Southeast and was the first European explorer to discover this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
On a map the degrees of lattitude measure north and south, degrees of longitude describe this
What is east and west?