Chapter 2

Question 1

Who was thought to be the first to reach North America?

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus

Question 2

When he got to the new world Columbus called the people he saw by what name?

Answer 2

Indians

Question 3

On his second voyage what did Columbus bring back?

Answer 3

Gold and trinkets

Question 4

Who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 4

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Question 5

The explorer looking for an Atlantic-Pacific passage was______.

Answer 5

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 6

Narrow passage connecting two larger bodies of water is called a ________.

Answer 6

strait

Question 7

This word means to travel around something.

Answer 7

Circumnavigate

Question 8

The bringing of new plants, animals, and diseases to western hemisphere came to be known as the ________ __________.

Answer 8

Columbian Exchange

Question 9

What are two examples of the impact the Americas had on Europe during the Columbian Exchange?

Answer 9

1. America introduced Europeans to plants and animals they had never seen.
2. Native Americans taught Europeans how to cultivate new crops.

Question 10

What did Pizarro do to the Inca leader?

Answer 10

He captured and executed him.

Question 11

Ponce de Leon was the first to land in what part of the United States?

Answer 11

Florida

Question 12

Spanish officials granted land to establish mines, ranches, and _______.

Answer 12

plantations

Question 13

The right to demand labor and taxes from Native Americans were called ____________.

Answer 13

encomiendas

Question 14

How did the Spanish get the Native Americans to work?

Answer 14

Forced them to work in the gold mines.

Question 15

He was a Spanish priest that protested the harsh treatment of the Native Americans.

Answer 15

Bartolome de las Casas

Question 16

This is another term for a religious settlements

Answer 16

Missions

Question 17

Spanish colonists born in Spain who had the highest level of society were called __________.

Answer 17

peninsulares

Question 18

What were two reasons why a small number of Spanish soldiers were able to defeat a large number of Native Americans?

Answer 18

1. The Native Americans’ weapons were no match for armor, muskets and cannons.
2. The Spanish brought over diseases that killed off many Native Americans.

Question 19

The teachings of Calvin had a great influence on what church?

Answer 19

Protestant

Question 20

Explorer that traveled around Newfoundland.

Answer 20

John Cabot

Question 21

Colonies valued for the wealth they could make for their home country.

Answer 21

Mercantilism

Question 22

His goal was to find a northern route to Asia.

Answer 22

Giovanni da Verrazono

Question 23

This explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River.

Answer 23

Jacques Cartier

Question 24

Explorer with a river and a bay named after him.

Answer 24

Henry Hudson

Question 25

Where did Hudson’s crew return to?

Answer 25

England

Question 26

He was a French explorer that established Quebec.

Answer 26

Samuel de Champlain

Question 27

The Mississippi River was first explored by a French priest named_________.

Answer 27

Jacques Marquette

Question 28

The name of the town built on an island, started by the Dutch trader Peter Minuit was ________________.

Answer 28

New Amsterdam

Question 29

An agreement between groups is called an ___________

Answer 29

alliance

Question 30

What were two negative impacts or effects that contact with Europeans caused the Native Americans?

Answer 30

1. Diseases

2. Over trapping of animals, weakened the food chain on which Native Americans depended.

Question 31

Independent traders that lived among the natives were called ______________________.

Answer 31

Coureurs de bois