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Spanish Exploration
Spanish Exploration Cont'd
English and French Beginnings
The Beginnings of Colonization
The Beginnings of Colonization
100
The monarchs that Columbus sailed under, to the New World.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain?
100
First Colony in North America claimed by the Spanish.
What is Florida?
100
Name of the passage to Asia being searched for in North America.
What is The Northwest Passage?
100
The first attempts at English colonization of the New World were made by these two men.
Who are Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh?
100
The man who discovered the strength of Tobacco as a cash crop in Jamestown.
Who is John Rolfe?
200
The main interest of Spain for sailing west.
What is a water route to Asia for Spices and Silks?
200
The native peoples exterminated by Hernando Cortes.
Who are the Aztecs?
200
Name of the first New World sailor for England.
Who is John Cabot?
200
What was the name of the attempted settlement by Walter Raleigh?
What is Roanoke Island?
200
System in which poor workers from England signed themselves into a form of slavery for free passage to Jamestown.
What is the Indenture System?
300
The Treaty of Tordesillas moved this "line" farther west to favor Spanish expansion in South America.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
300
The primary resource that the Spaniards sought in North America.
What is Gold and Silver?
300
The area claimed for France during their ventures to the New World.
What is St. Lawrence River area of Canada?
300
The successful joint-stock company that founded Jamestown and eventually Virginia.
What is the Virginia Company of London?
300
The name of the body of representatives in Jamestown.
What is the House of Burgesses?
400
The primary cause of death for Native Americans in contact with Europeans.
What is disease?
400
The Spanish turned to these peoples for labor after their Native American slaves died of overwork and disease.
Who are the Africans?
400
Name of the French Protestants who escaped prosecution in the New World.
What are Huguenots?
400
The primary reasons for Jamestown's early difficulties.
What are disease, native conflict, and lack of agricultural ambition?
400
The death of 347 settlers in 1622 were at the hands of this.
What is an attack by coastal natives?
500
The first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
500
The name given to the Spanish system of hierarchy.
What is "Hacienda?"
500
English Pirate that fostered war between the English and Spanish that ended in the destruction of the Spanish Armada.
Who is Francis Drake?
500
This rule of Jamestown could most likely be attributed to this man: "He who works not, eats not."
Who is John Smith?
500
In 1624 the Jamestown colony was taken from the Virginia Company of London by whom?
Who is King James 1?