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23 Cards in this Set
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What is significance/importance of the year 1607?
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Jamestown is founded (first permanent English settlement in North America)
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What is significance/importance of the year 1620?
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Pilgrims lands in Massachusetts and found Plymouth Colony, establishing government with Mayflower Compact
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What is significance/importance of the year 1776?
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America declares independence from Britain through the Declaration of Independence (author is Jefferson)
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What is significance/importance of the year 1787?
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America has its current Constitution written and ratified
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What is significance/importance of the year 1803?
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America (under President Jefferson) buys the Louisiana Purchase from France (under Napoleon)
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What is the New World? Who was is it names after?
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North and South America discovered after the early voyages of European explorers. Named after Amerigo Vespucci.
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What are "The Indies"?
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East Indies - A term that has been used to describe the lands of South and Southeast Asia. West Indies - a term used to describe the islands bordering the Caribbean Sea. Columbus founded.
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What are some reasons people in Europe started exploring the New World?
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To find a sea route to the spices of Asia
To find gold, silver, and precious stones To expand their knowledge of the world To control a larger empire To expand Christianity To find animal furs |
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What are some misconceptions and errors Europeans believed about the world? (how large it was, was it round or flat, etc.)
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Columbus under estimated the size of earth
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Who was Hernando de Soto?
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First to see the Mississippi River
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Who was Francisco Coronado?
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Expored the American southwest looking for cities of gold
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Who was Fracisco Pizarro?
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Conquered the Inca Indians
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Who was Nunez de Balboa?
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First to cross the Isthmus of Panama
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Who was Ponce de Leon?
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Expored Florida searching for the Fountain of Youth
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Who was Vasco de Gama?
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Let a fleet to Asia around Africa and back again
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Who was Hernando Cortes?
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Conquered the Aztec Indians
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Who was Leif Ericson?
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Viking leader of the first Europeans in America
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Who was Marco Polo?
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Lived in China in the 1200's and wrote a famous book about it
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Who was Ferdiand Magellan?
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Led the first circumnavigation (to sail around) of the world
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Who was Sir Francis Drake?
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Sea dog, went around the world looting Spanish towns and ships
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Who was Christopher Columbus?
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Accidentally sailed into the Americas looking for Asia in 1492
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Who was John Smith?
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Led first European attempt to colonize America
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Who was Henry the Navigator?
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Organized voyages around Africa to India
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