This explorer thought he found India, but actually landed in the Caribbean Islands.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
Spanish soldiers who were sent to conquer the new lands. They also hoped to get rich!
Who are the conquistadors?
100
He was looking for a Northwest Passage that would take him to Asia, but instead he claimed Canada for the French.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
100
This explorer sailed to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia just five years after Columbus landed in the Caribbean.
Who is John Cabot?
100
The Dutch West India Company sent this man to build relationships with the Indians. He traded iron pots, beads and blankets worth about $24 for the island of Manhattan.
Who is Peter Minuit?
200
His stories inspired countless explorers to try to find an easier route to India and China.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
These two types of groups helped settle the Spanish Borderlands.
Who are soldiers and missionaries?
200
The French had a unique relationship with the American Indians. Instead of trying to conquer the native people, they became this
What are business partners?
200
When John White returned to this settlement, the colonists had disappeared.
What was Roanoke?
200
The Dutch worked with this Indian Confederacy and supported them with the weapons they needed to stand up to the Huron.
Who are the Iroquois?
300
While Christopher Columbus was from Italy, his expeditions were funded by these Spanish royals.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
300
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was looking for gold, but instead found these villages made up of tall, apartment-like buildings made of stone and adobe.
What are pueblos?
300
The American Indians taught these men the skills they would need to trap beavers.
Who are the coureurs de bois?
300
This leader threatened that if you didn’t work, you shouldn’t eat.
Who is John Smith?
300
The new name for New Amsterdam when it was taken over in 1664.
What is New York?
400
This term describes the transfer of people, plants, animals and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
400
Some of the Aztecs thought he was a hero, until he used native tensions and smallpox to defeat them. He tore down their temples and used the stones to build Mexico City.
Who is Cortes?
400
In 1637, Father Marquette and Louis Joliet hoped the Mississippi River would lead to Asia. They were disappointed when they found out that the Mississippi River led to this body of water.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
400
Their relationship helped end the conflict between the Jamestown settlers and the American Indians.
Who are John Rolfe and Pocahontas?
400
$400 Under this Dutch colony governor leadership, New Amsterdam grew to almost 8,000 diverse people. (hint, hint… he had two names)
Who is Peter Stuyvesant or “Peg Leg Pete”?
500
The Spanish settlers started bringing African slaves to the Americas because the indigenous (native people were dying from this
What are European diseases?
500
This conquistador defeated the Incas in Peru, but it helped that smallpox had killed thousands of Incas before he arrived.
Who is Pizarro?
500
Symbolizing their friendship, Champlain helped the Huron defeat this enemy.
Who are the Iroquois Indians?
500
When the British took over New Amsterdam, this King renamed it to honor his brother, the Duke of York.
Who is Charles II?
500
The Dutch settlement was surrendered to this country without a single shot being fired.