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25 Cards in this Set
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Where was Columbus from?
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Genoa, Italy
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Why did Ferdinand and Isabella so graciously accept Columbus' offer?
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They were celebrating driving the Muslims out of Spain! whoop whoop!
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What types of people were the first americans?
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Religiously persecuted
Poor People Criminals |
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Where were the criminals in America?
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Georgia (prison colony)
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What was the 1st British Settlement?
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Roanoake
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Which colony was called the "Lost Colony"?
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Roanoake
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What was the 1st permanent English settlement?
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Jamestown
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Who was the leader of the Jamestown Coalition?
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John Smith
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Why did Jamestown survive?
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Native Americans showed them tobacco
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What were 2 results of the success of Jamestown?
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Needed slaves (slave trade)
Could rule themselves democratically - House of Burgesses |
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What was the 1st elected representative body in the U.S.?
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House of Burgesses
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Why did people go to Plymouth?
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To escape persecution and to get pure christian worship
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What killed the Native Americans at Plymouth?
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The plague brought by the Europeans
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Which way did Columbus sail?
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West
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What 2 things did Columbus promise to Isabella and Ferdinand?
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Money and taking catholisism to lands he found
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What is a viceroy?
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a governor
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What are the 3 ships that Columbus sailed?
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Nina
Pinta Santa Maria |
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What did Columbus name the Island he landed on that he thought was Asia?
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San Salvador (Holy Savior)
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What did the American Indians that Columbus met call themselves?
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Taino
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What is an encomienda system?
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Colonists had the right to have a certain number of American Indians as slaves
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What did Bartolome de Las Casas do?
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Encouraged Spanish colonists to work peacefully with the Indians
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What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
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moved the Line of Demarcation west so that territory west of the line would belong to Spain; East of the lin, to Portugal
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What did Vasco Nunez de Balboa do?
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Discovered and named the Pacific Ocean
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What 2 things did Magellen do?
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Found westward route to Asia
Circumnavigated |
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Who was Malintzin?
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An Aztec princess who became an interpreter and adviser to Hernan Cortes
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