NEW SPAIN/LOOKING WEST FROM EUROPE | AMERICAN INDIANS AND SPANISH MISSIONARIES | THE VIRGINIA COLONY | THE PLYMOUTH COLONY | FRENCH/DUCH CLAIMS |
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What is that capital of the Aztec empire?
Tenochitilan
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What are soldiers?
The first Spaniards to come to New Spain.
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What is gold, silver and copper?
Valuable minerals that the British found in the Americas?
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What is A Description of New England?
This book was written by John Smith that included maps of the new world.
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What is the Mayflower Compact?
The document that wrote an agreement to form a government and obey all laws for the good of the colony.
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What is St. Augustine?
The first permanent settlement in the United States
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What is encomienda?
The system that basically gave American Indians as slaves to Spanish settlers.
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What is tobacco?
John Rolfe brought this plant to Jamestown because the Merchant Company had not made any money.
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What is The Church of England?
The official church in England at the time of exploration.
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What is France?
This country brought slaves from Africa to Louisiana to farm the land.
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Who is Hernando Cortes
This person's army conquered the Aztecs
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Who are Spanish Missionaries?
Committed to convert the American Indians to Christianity.
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What is a Cash Crop?
A crop that is grown to be sold rather than used by the farmer.
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Who are Separatists or Pilgrims?
These people moved to the new world because they disagreed with some of the English church's beliefs and would not join it.
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Who are Marquette and Joliet?
King Louis XIV sent these two explorers to find the NW Passage but instead they found the Mississippi River.
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Who is Queen Elizabeth I
This leader encouraged the English sea captains to attack the Spanish ships.
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Who is Pope'?
This American Indian organized a revolt again the Spanish in New Mexico.
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Who is Pocahontas?
John Smith was saved by this Powhatan who begged for his life.
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Who is Tisquantum (also known as Squanto)
This Native American helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter in the new world by helping them learn to fish and grow the native crops.
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What is The Dutch West India Company?
This company took control of the fur-trading in NY and NJ in 1621.
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Who is King Francis I
This French ruler competed with English for exploring and obtaining land.
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What are horses and sheep?
These two animals were brought to the Americas by the Spanish
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What is House of Burgesses?
A 1619 law-making establishment in Jamestown that represented the people and set taxes..
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What is The Plymouth Colony
This colony survived by dividing the land equally so that each individual was responsible to work to survive.
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What is The Algonquian
This Native American group had conflict with the Dutch colonists and they attached each other's farms and villages.
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