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Spanish
Dutch/French
English
Columbus
Slavery
100
conquistador
What is the Spanish term for conqueror?
100
The Northwest Passage
What was Henry Hudson looking for when he explored the area that is present day new York?
100
Pocahontas
Who was the daughter of the Algonquin Chief Powhatan?
100
gold, spices, silk & jewels
What did the Europeans want from Asia?
100
Where most slaves were taken from and brought to the New World.
What is West Africa?
200
Florida, Central and South America and the southern United States
Where did the Spanish primarily explore in the New World?
200
Trading with Native Americans for furs to sell to Europe.
Why did the Dutch and the French establish colonies (settlements) in the New World?
200
The Lost Colony
What is the name for the first English colony that disappeared?
200
Was Italian by birth, but sailed west to find a way to Asia for the Spanish King & Queen.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
The European country thought to be the first to start trading and selling slaves in the New World.
What is Portugal?
300
Fountain of Youth
What was Juan Ponce de Leon looking for when he first explored Florida?
300
The area that is now Quebec and French Canada as well as the entire Mississippi River Valley and present day Louisiana.
What areas did the French explore and claim for France?
300
Jamestown
What is the name for the first permanent English colony in the Americas?
300
The year Columbus discovered the "New World."
What is 1492
300
The reason Portuguese sugar cane planters worked their slaves so hard and mistreated them.
What happened when slaves were inexpensive to buy or trade?
400
Because they never found large quantities of gold.
Why did the Spanish stop exploring the New World for awhile after 1542?
400
Colony established on Manhattan Island and currently known as New York City.
Where was the important Dutch colony of new Amsterdam?
400
The name for a group of investors who shared the cost and the risk to establish colonies in North America.
What is a joint-stock company
400
Present day Puerto Rico
Where did Columbus land on his first voyage to the "New World?"
400
The name used to describe the lack of toilet facilities for slaves on slave ships.
What is sanitation?
500
Encomienda System
What was the system whereby Spanish settlers were given a large plot of land and native American workers called?
500
Wall Street
What is the current name for the area where the Dutch built a wall to protect themselves from attack?
500
The most important cash crop in Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
500
Hispaniola
What is the name of the island Columbus wanted to make into a Spanish colony?
500
People who agree to work for a number of years to pay off a debt.
What are indentured servants?