Exploring for Spain, he discovered the Carribean Islands which he thought was the East Indies. He was given the title "Admiral of the Ocean Sea."
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
A group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land.
What is a colony?
100
Spanish conquerors are also known as this.
What is conquistadors?
100
The main reason why Spain began exploring the Americas.
What is gold and silver?
100
The French worked with this group of people in the Americas to learn skills for fishing, trapping, and hunting.
Who are the Native Americans?
200
A Viking explorer who explored the Northern tip of North America, naming it "Newfoundland." He battled with the Inuits and shortly returned home to Scandinavia.
Who is Leif Ericson?
200
A large estate farmed by many workers.
What is a plantation?
200
Forts in the Spanish colonies where soldiers lived. The soldiers in these forts protected the farmers nearby.
What are presidios?
200
A law passed by the Spanish monarch to ensure that the colonies were being ruled appropriately.
What is the Law of the Indies?
200
The city created as a fort in the colonies to protect Louisiana from Spain and England.
What is New Orleans?
300
Sailed from Spain to the Phillipines where he was killed by the local people there. His crew was the first group of people to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
The term for the group of people in the colonies that were a mixed race of Spanish and Indian.
What are mestizos?
300
A result of Spanish settlement in the Americas. The trade of Africans to the colonies for labor.
What is the African Slave Trade?
300
The group of people that were rivals of the French in the fur trade in the Americas. They created an alliance with the Iroquois.
Who are the Dutch?
400
A Spanish priest in the colonies who asked the king for Native American protection. He suggested the idea of using Africans as slaves in the new world.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
400
Land grants from the Spanish government that allowed settlers in the colonies to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans.
What are encomiendas?
400
The global transfer of goods and ideas between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
The early American civilizations that fell due to Spanish exploration and force.
Who are the Aztecs and the Incas?
400
The main religion of the Dutch colonists. It was a new religion that argued that people could only be saved by having faith in God, not by doing good works.
What is Protestant?
500
A French explorer who created the first permanent French settlement in Port Royal, Nova Scotia.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
500
A religious movement in the late 1500s in Europe where people split from the Catholic Church and followed Martin Luther's beliefs.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
500
French colonists who lived and worked in the woods in the Americas to get away from the rule of the French monarchs. These people established friendly relationships with the Native Americans and learned from them.
Who are the coureurs de bois?
500
Spain explored and settled in this place.
What is Florida/Central America/Southwest North America/South America?
500
These colonists believed in the Catholic religion and sent missionaries to the Americas to teach the Native Americans about it.