Dates to Remember
Christopher Columbus landed on an island off the coast of North America in this year.
What is 1492?
The first English attempt at a colony in the New World, on Roaknoke Island happened in this year.
What is 1587?
Columbus' idea that Europeans could establish a direct trade route with the Indies (China, Japan, and India) by sailing west across the Atlantic.
This man for whom the continents of North and South America are named.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Who were the explorers avoiding in the spice trade explorations to find a new route?
Who are the Muslims?
John Cabot and his ships landed north of what is now Newfoundland in this year.
What is 1497?
Jamestown Colony was founded in this year.
What is 1607?
The "Straits of Anian," a long-sought sea passage across the Americas to the Indies.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This was a sailor from the city of Genoa (now Italy), who was the first European to set sail westward to find a route to the Orient, and instead discovered the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This country explored and established settlements in what is today called Florida and New Mexico.
What is Spain?
French Explorer Jacques Cartier discovers the St. Lawerence River in this year.
What is 1535?
Samuel de Champlain establishes a settlement at Quebec on the St. Lawrence River in this year.
What is 1608?
This is the theory that, in order to grow rich and powerful, a nation needs raw materials from elsewhere.
What is mercantilism?
This was an Italian mariner who led the first English exploration of North America.
Who is Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot)?
This was the only country that sent explorers to find a water route to the Indies that did NOT have the mission of evangilzation.
Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River in this year.
What is 1541?
Tobacco seed arrived in Virginia, providing a cash crop for the colony in this year.
What is 1610?
This explorer was neither Spanish, nor French, nor English, but rather Italian and he was the first explorer searching for passage to India.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This is the first European to land on the coast of Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Léon?
This was the first continually inhabited colony in what would become the United States.
What is St. Augustin?
Pedro Menendez de Aviles, a Spaniard, established San Agustin in La Florida in this year.
What is 1565?
Rene-Robert, Sieur de la Salle, begins an exploration of the Mississippi in this year.
What is 1682?
These were the 3 countries, who a various times and in various ways throughout this chapter, sent missions ox exploration, evangelization, colonization, and subjugation.
What is Spain, France, and England?
This was a Spaniard who explored what is now the southeast United States.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
Each of these groups of people had their own existing culture, customs, religious beliefs, and practices.
Who are the Native Americans?