Spanish Explorers
Who discovered the New World for the Spanish?
Christopher Columbus
Who was the first explorer for England to the New World?
John Cabot or Giovanni Cabotto
Who was the Italian mariner who was the first explorer for the French to N. America?
Giovanni da Verrazzano
What was the other name for the Seven Years War, say, in N. America?
the French and Indian War
T or F. Virginia was the oldest English colony in N. America.
True
What New World island did Columbus make landfall at on his first voyage?
the Bahamas... San Salvador or Guanahani
Who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world?
Sir Francis Drake
True or False. Verrazzano sailed into the Hudson River mouth near where Manhattan is today.
True
Who were the two principal European powers at conflict with one another in the French and Indian War?
T or F. Plymouth, MA was principally a commercial enterprise and really had little or nothing to do with religion.
False
Name the conquistador who subjected the Aztecs in 1521.
Hernan Cortez
Capt. John Smith
This explorer for France set its foreign policy for years to come when he allied himself with the Hurons/Wyndats vs the Iroquois of northern NY.
Samuel de Champlain
Which of the two powers at war was more successful in the first 3 years of the 7 Years War?
France
Why was OLG so important to the colonization of New Spain?
Mary appeared as an Aztec princess but also as the Mother of the Christian God... and so validated the Spanish religion, Catholicism in the New World.
This Spanish explorer was the first to set eyes on the Pacific Ocean which he called the Great Southern Sea... seeing it from Panama.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
This English explorer was a favorite of QEI after Drake and was the man who introduced smoking tobacco to Englishmen.
Sir Walter Raleigh
This pair of explorers for the French charted the way from Lake Michigan down the Mississippi a good ways and then back.
Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet
Who was the English officer who took Quebec?
James Wolfe
What was the common punishment for thievery or minor offenses against the community in the colonies?
The stocks
Who of the Spanish explorers was fooled twice; once to look for Cibola and once to look for Quivira?
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
This early settler to Jamestown saved it by introducing tobacco as a cash crop.
John Rolfe
This French lord set up fur trading posts from New Orleans up the Mississippi.
When the 7 Years War ended, which nation won and which was kicked out of N. America basically?
What experiences did G. Washington have in the 7 Years War/French and Indian War that helped him in the Revolutionary War?
He saw that the British could be beaten and how to do it, and he learned logistics.