Vocab
Vocab 2
Key Terms & People
Multiple Choice
Bonus
100

What is the name for large farms that grow just one kind of crop, making huge profits for their owners?

What are Plantations

100

What is the name of the document which grants someone permission to start a colony?

Bonus 100pt, name ANY colony and it's originating country

What is a Charter

+100 bonus if ANY settlement/colony of Portugal,Spain, England, France, or Dutch are named with correct country

100

Who sailed for Spain and 'discovered' America for Spain?

Bonus 50pts where was he from originally?

Who is Christopher Columbus

+50pt = From (Genoa) Italy

100

Where was the first French Colony located?

Bonus 100pts, what was its name?

What is Canada

+100pt = Quebec


100

A full blooded European who was born in Spain that has control of an American territory was called?

Bonus 100pts, what would their child be called if they too were full blood Spanish but born in New Spain?

What is a Peninsulares

+100 = Creoles

200

What is the name of the system that gave (Spanish) settlers the right to tax Native Americans or make them work?

Bonus 100pts per the 5 parts named of the system

Extra 100 if in order

What is the Encomienda System

100pt = Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, Mulatos,  NA + African slaves

+100 more if given in that order.

200

What is the name of a Portuguese ship that used triangular sails to sail against the wind?

+100 bonus give the NAME of this kind of boat 

What is a caravel

+100 = Nina or Pinta Christopher Columbus' boats.

200

Who was Viking that landed in present-day Canada in the year 1000?

+100pt where did he (Vikings) come from?

Who was Leif Eriksson

+100pts = Sweden, Norway, or Finland

200

Who were the first Europeans to make contact with North America?

Who were the Vikings

200

A European, Native American mixed person would be called a?

What is a Mestizo

300

What is the name of the sea route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic directly to the Pacific Ocean?

Bonus 250pts, what's the truth about this sea route?

What is the Northwest Passage

250 pts = The route doesn't exist, never found, not real.

300

What is the device used to determine location based on the position of the stars called?

Bonus 100pts = what European country invented it

What is an Astrolabe

+100pts = Portugal

300

Who was the Priest who wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity by treating them in a better manner?

Who was Bartolome de Las Casas

300

What region did Portugal and Spain conquer the most land?

What is meso, and South America

300

Name the 5 European countries that participated in exploration

Who are Portugal, Spain, England, France, and Netherlands.

400

What is the imaginary line called which splits the Atlantic to divide Spanish + Portuguese territories found in America?

Bonus 300 which country got which side?

What is the Line of Demarcation 

Portugal got all land East of the line = 150 pts

Spain got all land West of the line = 150 pts

400

What are the names of reformers who went against some of the Catholic Church's practices?

Who are Protestants

400

Who was the conquistador who conquered the Incan empire?

Bonus 100pt what did he rename the territory he claimed?

Who was Francisco Pizarro

+100 bonus = Peru

400

What region was claimed most by England, France, and the Dutch?

What is North America

400

Name an explorer from one of each of the European countries that explored America. 

+200 for each explorer and correct country

Who are

Portugal = Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama

Spain = Christopher Columbus, Francisco Pizarro, Hernan Cortez

England = John Cabot, Henry Hudson

France = Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Giovanni de Verazzano

Dutch = Henry Hudson

500

What religious movement began as an effort to reform the Catholic Church?

What was the Protestant Reformation

500

What was the agreement between Spain + Portugal called where the Line of Demarcation was moved slightly west? 

Bonus 300 points how many miles west did the line move?

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas

800 miles = 300 extra points.

500

Who was the conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire? 

Bonus 100pts what did he rename it? 

Who was Herna Cortez

+100 = New Spain

500

What is the correct chronological order of European exploration to the Americas?

What is Portugal, Spain, England, France, & Dutch

500

Put the explorer is order of who explored first.

Giovanni da Verazzano

John Cabot

Jacques Cartier

Henry Hudson

What is 

John Cabot

Giovanni da Verazzano

Henry Hudson

Jacques Cartier