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Chapter 2: European Exploration & Settlement
Chapter 2: European Exploration & Settlement
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How did Europeans explore and establish settlements in the Americas?
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Spanish soldier-explorers, especially those who conquered the native peoples of Mexico and Peru
fontaneros
vencedors
conquistadors
panaderos
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What was New Amsterdam renamed after the British took it from the Dutch without firing a shot?
New Jersey
New Berlin
New Hampshire
New York
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What does this map show?
Areas of the Americas claimed by European countries in 1682
Europe in 1682
The United States of America
Ecosystems in North America
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The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, & people between Europe and the Americas.
Expropration
adjustment
Stock Exchange
Columbian Exchange
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What was the first successful English colony in the Americas?
Jamestown
Raileigh
Roanoke
New Amsterdam
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a person who travels to a territory or community to make converts to his or her religion
conquistors
mercenaries
pastors
missionaries
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Who were the first native people that Columbus came in contact with?
the Incas
the Aztec
the Seminole
the Taino
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What were the dangers to Jamestown?
hunger, disease, hostile natives
cold and lack of building materials
drought and famine
zombies
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France claimed the land West of the Mississippi. What did they call it?
l'Ouest
DePere
Bonaparte
Louisanna
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Hernán Cortés conquered which American group?
the Inca
the Quecha
the Mayan
the Aztec
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Where did the Dutch settle in Americas?
along the Hudson river
Mexico City
Caribbean
Roanoke
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What were the lands located on the far edge of Spain's North American empire known as?
the Spanish Badlands
the Spanish Borderlands
the frontier
the Spanish Expansion Zone
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Columbus thought the shortest route to the Indies lay to the west, across the Atlantic Ocean
false
true
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Identify the person that is
not
a Spanish conquistador.
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Francisco Pizarro
Marco Polo
Hernán Cortés
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Francisco Pizarro conquered which American group?
the Inca
the Mayan
the Aztec
the Quecha
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A new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land.
mission
state
colony
commonwealth
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What conclusion does Columbus make when he sees pelicans flying near or landing on his ship?
that his sailors would eat the pelicans
that a storm was developing
that his sailors would catch fish
that land was near
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Pedro Menéndez built a fort on Florida's Atlantic coast to protect Spanish claims from whom?
the Germans and Italians
the British and French
the Dutch
the Americans
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Identify the statement(s) that are true about slavery in the Americas.
European explorers rejected slavery in the Americas.
Slavery didn't exist before European discovery of America.
American Indian slaves were treated with dignity.
African slaves took the place of American Indian workers.
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French trappers who learned many skills from the American Indians with whom they worked & lived
sommets de poils
péages
mountain men
coureurs de bois
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What did the Indians introduce to the Spanish?
the game of soccer
new techniques for growing crops in desert soil
new techniques for building ships
raising sheep for wool
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The most notable outcome of the Columbia Exchange for many American Indian groups was...
increased population sizes.
their gaining recognition as self governing nations.
dying from diseases.
becoming rich from European textiles.
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Who was the Spanish conquistador who died from a poison arrow in Florida establishing a colony
Ponce de León
Hernán Cortés
Marcos de Niza
Francisco de Coronado
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What did the French want from America?
furs
lands
cheese
slaves
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The year that Columbus first reached the Americas.
1887
1776
1492
1942
