Spanish Colonization
Ponce de Leon was very impressed with the flowers on the mainland when he named the Spanish colony, "La _____________________".
What is Florida?
The first permanent French settlement was ___________________.
What is Quebec?
The Pilgrims landed in _________________ , Massachusetts, in 1620.
What is Plimouth?
Ponce de Leon searched for this mythical spring for those who drank or bathed in it.
What is the Fountain of Youth?
Man-made objects of historical or cultural interests are ______________ .
What are artifacts?
Christopher Columbus was Italian but sailed under King _______________ and Queen ___________________ of Spain.
Who is Ferdinand and Isabella?
Both Cartier and Champlain sailed along the ___________________________ River.
What is the St. Lawrence?
The challenging winter of 1609–1610 in Jamestown became known as the "________________ _______________".
What is "Starving Time"?
French explorers were sent by the French King to find this path that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Pizarro and Cortes were Spanish ________________ who conquered the Aztec and Inca Empires.
What are conquistadors?
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés settled the first permanent Spanish settlement, ____________________, in 1565.
What is St. Augustine?
Robert LaSalle claimed land and called it ___________________, in honor of the French king.
What is Louisiana?
The settlement on ______________ Island is often referred to as "The Lost Colony" because the settlers disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
Spanish conquistador Francisco Coronado looked in the southwest for the fabled ________________________.
What are the Seven Cities of Gold?
In 1620, about 100 English voyagers sailed on a __________________ aboard the Mayflower.
What is a pilgrimage?
A Line of Demarcation dividing the New World into Spanish and Portuguese territories to explore was drawn by ______________.
Who was the Pope?
Marquette and Joliet sailed south down the __________________ ____________ until they grew worried they would be captured by the Spanish.
What is the Mississippi River?
____________ ____________ is widely believed to have saved the Jamestown Colony from failure.
Who is John Smith?
Ferdinand Magellan tried to circumnavigate the world until he was killed in the ______________________.
What is the Philippines?
The Spanish built the Castillo de San Marcos to _________________ their settlement.
What is fortify?
Italian merchant ________________ _______________ proved Columbus was wrong and he is the person that "America" is named after.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
_____________________, a city on Lake Michigan, was a strategic place for the French to establish the fur trade because it provided shelter from enemies and many water routes to ship their goods.
What is Detroit?
____________________ was a cash crop that provided the English settlers with a great deal of wealth and saved Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
Cartier kidnapped the Iroquois Chief so that he could tell the French King about the mythical kingdom of ________________________.
What is Saguenay?
The French fur trade enabled the natives and French settlers to enjoy a ________________ relationship.
What is symbiotic?