Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
20 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Hernan Cortes
|
led the Spaniards arrived at Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital
|
|
|
St. Augustine
|
Spanish built a fortress at St. Augustine, Florida to protect the sea-lanes to the Caribbean.
|
|
|
Popes Rebellion
|
Spanish captured New Mexico in 1609, the natives launched a rebellion
|
|
|
"Black Legend."
|
stated that the conquerors just tortured and killed the Indians, stole their gold, infected them with smallpox, and left little but misery behind.
|
|
|
Ponce de Leon
|
explores Florida
|
|
|
Verrazano
|
explores eastern seaboard of North America for France.
|
|
|
Pizarro
|
crushes Incas.
|
|
|
Cartier
|
journeys up the St. Lawrence River.
|
|
|
La Salle.
|
French exploration down Mississippi River
|
|
|
Francis Drake
|
circumnavigated the globe, plundering and returning with his ship loaded with Spanish booty.
|
|
|
Virginia Company of London
|
Jamestown a joint-stock company
|
|
|
Captain John Smith
|
Jamestown
|
|
|
John Rolfe
|
married Pocahonta
|
|
|
House of Burgesses.
|
self-government was made in Virginia
|
|
|
Lord Baltimore.
|
formed Maryland, was made for a refuge for the Catholics
|
|
|
Act of Toleration
|
local representative group in Maryland, granted toleration to all Christians.
|
|
|
William Penn
|
Pennsylvania Quakers
|
|
|
Raleigh
|
founds Roanoke colony
|
|
|
John Winthrop
|
the Bay Colony's first governor
|
|
|
Reverend Thomas Hooker
|
Connecticut River colony drafted Fundamental Order (constitution)
|
