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Territory Claimed by European Countries in North America
Reason For European Exploration
Columbian Exchange
European effects on Native Americans/West Africans & Jamestown
100
This killed many Native Americans after Europeans arrive in North and South America.
Disease
100
Describe the territory that Spain owned in the United States.
They owned land in North America to the west and all the way down through South America.
100

The Spanish individuals who "conquered" America for glory and riches.

What are conquistadors?

100
Identify and list 5 things that would be considered positives of the Columbian Exchange.
New food like corn, potatoes, tomatoes, etc... OR new animals like cattle, horses, sheep, etc... OR an introduction of new ideas from one place to the other
100
Explain how disease effected Native Americans after European contact?
As much as 90% of the Native American population died as a result of not being able to defend themselves against new European diseases.
200
Which country owned land on the east coast of what would be present day United States?
England
200
Describe the land France owned in North America.
They owned land around the Great Lakes of North America as well as land that included the Ohio River, Mississippi River, Missouri River, Arkansas River, and the North Platte River.
200

Spanish individuals who ruled a colony in the name of the king or queen.  (In England it was called a Governor.)

What are viceroys?

200
Identify and list 2 negatives of the Columbian Exchange?
Diseases and Slavery
200

The pattern of trade in enslaved Africans.

What is the triangular trade?
300
It was the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas started by Christopher Columbus.
Columbian Exhange
300

Local Native Americans helped the French people trade what item?

What is fur?

300
What were two reasons why Europeans decided to sail west toward the continents of North and South America?
Finding a western water route to Asia and profit/wealth
300
Approximately how many years did the Columbian Exchange last? DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
150 YEARS.
300

The rivalry between France and England for territory in the Americas ended with this war.

What is the French and Indian War?

400
Lasted from the 1500s century until the 1800s. It was the trade of African people from Western Africa to the Americas.
Atlantic Slave Trade
400

Which country owned the most land in the New World? DAILY DOUBLE!!!

Spain

400
In what year did Christopher Columbus set sail for Asia?
1492
400

A document that gave Spaniards the right to control a group of Native Americans.

What is an encomienda?

400
The settlement of Jamestown finally succeeded when the Native Americans taught the English how to grow this cash crop.

What is tobacco?

500
This was the first English settlement in North America and is considered the United States of America's birthplace.
Jamestown
500

The name of the Dutch settlement in North America.

What is New Netherland?

500
Which continent did Christopher Columbus think he landed on when he arrived in the Bahamas of the coast of what is now present day Florida? DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Asia