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US HistoryChapter 2
Exploring the Americas
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| Niña, Pinta, and the Santa María | In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed to America with these 3 ships. |
| Hernán Cortés | Which Spaniard landed on the east coast of present-day Mexico in 1519? |
| A northwest passage to Asia | What did the first explorers from England, France, and the Netherlands hope to discover? |
| fishing and fur trade | What did the French want to establish in the Americas? |
| Oklahoma | Hernando de Soto traveled as far west as what present-day state? |
| conquistadors | Spanish explorers |
| peninsulares | Spanish upper class |
| pueblos | Spanish towns in the Americas |
| missions | Spanish religious communities |
| presidio | Spanish fort |
| Aztec | Hernán Cortés destroyed this powerful empire. |
| Pizzaro | Which man and his army conquered the Inca? |
| the fountain of youth | What was Juan Ponce de León searching for on the mainland of North America? |
| slave labor | What was an essential part of the economy of the Spanish colonies? |
| disease | Many Native Americans died because of _______________after the arrival of Europeans. |
| astrolabe | One of the new developments that made exploration possible was a navigation tool called a(n) _____________________. |
| San Salvador | The first land that Columbus reached was an island in the Caribbean which he named ______________________________. |
| Indians | What did Columbus call the people he encountered in the new lands? |
| carrack | The __________________ helped make long voyages possible because it was large enough to carry the necessary supplies for the trip. |
| peaceful | The word Pacific means _______________________ in Spanish. |
| Italy | Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas under the flag of Spain but he was born in __________________. |
| The Americas | Explorers in the fifteenth century thought that the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ran together and did not know that _________________ lay between them. |
| Amerigo Vespucci | The fact that South America was a separate continent was discovered by __________________. |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | Who was the first explorer from France to reach North America? |
| Henry Hudson | To find a passage through the Americas, the Dutch hired _____________________. |
| Protestant Reformation | A sixteenth-century religious movement rejecting some Roman Catholic practices and establishing the Protestant churches. |
| tenant farmer | A settler who paid the landowner an annual rent and worked for that lord for a fixed number of days each year |
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