1.1, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

Question 0

What were the major Native American groups/cultures?

Answer 0

Mayas
Incas
Aztecs

Question 1

What is one theory for how the natives got to America?

Answer 1

Land bridge (Russia - North America)
(Migration)

Question 2

What made the Mayas different?

Answer 2

Developed Temples, Pyramids, streets..
Established language/calendar
Grew Maize
CENTRAL AMERICA

Question 3

What made the Incas different?

Answer 3

Had terraces, canals, aqueducts, roads
Capital: Cuzco
Strict rules, money
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA (Chile)

Question 4

What made the Aztecs different?

Answer 4

War nation; pyramids

MEXICO

Question 5

What were common cultural features of North American Natives?

Answer 5

Balance of gender-powers
Respect elders/look up to them
Aqueducts

Question 6

Who were the early natives of North America?

Answer 6

Paleo-Indians

Question 7

How did the North Americans act with moving locations?

Answer 7

Semi-Sedentary/Nomadic

Stay in the same place, MOSTLY

Question 8

What were the 3 motivations of sponsoring exploration?

Answer 8

God
Gold
Glory

Question 9

What countries were big on exploration of the Americas?

Answer 9

Spain, Portugal, England, France, Holland, Italy

Question 10

Which 2 explorers were sponsored by Spain?

Answer 10

Cortés:

Cabral:

Question 11

Who was Vasco da Gama?

Answer 11

Took advantage of Bartolomeu Dias’s discovery to reach India

Question 12

Who was Bartolomeu Dias?

Answer 12

Portuguese mariner who learned how to get around southern Africa

Question 13

Who was Christopher Columbus?

Answer 13

Italian mariner sponsored by Spain. Sought a route to China, in order to convert the Chinese.
Landed in Americas instead.

Question 14

Who was John Cabot?

Answer 14

Employed by the English, sailed to Newfoundland.

Question 15

Who was Pedro Alvarez Cabral?

Answer 15

Commanded a Portuguese fleet and discovered the coast of Brazil

Question 16

Who was Amerigo Vespucci?

Answer 16

Explored South America’s coast and deemed it a new continent.

Question 17

Who was Ferdinand Magellan?

Answer 17

Succeeded in encircling the entire globe

Question 18

Who was Hernán Cortés?

Answer 18

Led volunteers from Cuba to Mexico and conquered the Aztecs. Ended up killing Moctezuma. Wanted WEALTH but Spanish wanted god.

Question 19

What motivation did France have for exploration?

Answer 19

Spread Christianity

Question 20

What motivation did Spain have for exploration?

Answer 20

God

Question 21

How did the French colonize?

Answer 21

By being friendly with the natives

Question 22

What was the first non-permanent colony in the Americas? Who founded it?

Answer 22

Roanoke in North Carolina

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 23

What happened to Roanoke?

Answer 23

Raleigh returns to see that no colonists remain

Question 24

What was the first permanent settlement? Who founded it and who granted the land? What was the motivation?

Answer 24

Jamestown John Smith ENGLAND : King --> London company GOLD (work or starve) commerce and trade for England

Question 25

What was one important cash crop?

Answer 25

Tobacco

Question 26

What was the first elected legislative assembly of the Americas?

Answer 26

House of Burgesses

Question 27

How did Jamestown progress with it's population?

Answer 27

Started out as simply motivated by Gold. Later brought in women and slaves, eventually whole families were settled

Question 28

What did Plymouth face religion-wise?

Answer 28

Puritans and separatists who wanted to break away and form their own churches

Question 29

How did the Spanish treat the natives?

Answer 29

Harshly. They eventually enslaved them, and threatened them from the very beginning.

Question 30

Give an example of missionaries

Answer 30

Friars of Spain who tried to persuade natives into adopting their culture and Christianity

Question 31

How did the French treat the natives?

Answer 31

They were friendly and traded with Indians for furs. | Treated them well because they needed them for trade and for hunting

Question 32

Who was Samuel de Champlain? What did he do?

Answer 32

Quebec's founder. Aided the natives in a fight against the Iroquois, but brought heavy weaponry (guns) against the native bows, and made powerful enemies with the Iroquois

Question 33

What was England's motivation

Answer 33

Glory and Gold

Question 34

What were the original 4 colonies?

Answer 34

Virginia Maryland (owned by Lord Baltimore) The Carolinas Georgia (led by James Oglethorpe)

Question 35

What type of colony was Georgia?

Answer 35

A haven for those who could not pay their English debts; Oglethorpe set strict rules that no one could drink alcohol, could not work plantations (had to work their own land) Eventually became a royal colony due to unhappy colonists