Jeopardy European Exploration of the Americas Chapter 2

Spain Claims an Empire European Competition in North America The Spanish and Native Americans Beginnings of Slavery in the Americas

This country controlled most of the land trade routes with Asia during the 1400’s (Think of before Columbus)

What was Italy?

This explorer was the first European Explorer to reach Asia using an all water route. (He went around Africa and across the Indian Ocean.)

Who was Vasco DeGama?

This explorer’s crew were the first people to sail completely around the world.

Who was Ferdinand Magellan?

This is the modern day country in the western hemisphere that Portugal was able to colonize.

What is Brazil?

This explorer is the person to realize that Columbus did not find a water route to Asia.

Who was Amerigo Vespucci?

This country was most interested in colonizing America during the 1600’s.

Who was Spain?

This country settled New Amsterdam in what is now New York City.

What is Netherlands?

This explorer set up a fur trading post in Quebec.

Who was Samuel de Champlain?

This country’s seadogs fought the Spanish Armada when they attacked.

Who was England?

The Spanish attacked a French colony called Fort Caroline in what is now this state.

What is Florida

The Spanish divided their American empire into two provinces, New Spain and Peru, that they called this.

What were Viceroyalties?

This man was called “The Protector of the Indians.”

Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?

This was a grant of Native American slave labor.

What was an encomienda?

This man brought sugar cane to the Americas thinking that it would grow here.

Who was Christopher Columbus?

This is what people of Spanish descent born in America were called.

What is Creole?

This farming was the main reason for needing more slaves in America during the 1400’s and 1500’s.

What is sugar farming?

This is the percentage of slaves that is thought that didn’t survive a normal trip across the Atlantic.

What is 20%?

The slave trade was called this type of shape.

What is Triangular Trade?

This is the region of Africa that was most negatively affected by the slave trade.

What is Inland Africa or Central Africa?

This is the term for runaway or fugitive slaves.

What is Maroon?