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Class Notes
(1492-1675)
Instructions:
Use the America, History of our Nation Textbook Pages 32-53 and
class notes to answer these questions. Answer the following
questions in complete sentences or you will lose half credit! Please
use these questions to help prepare you for the class exam on chapter 2.
1. What was the name of the earliest people from Europe and the Asia to
arrive in the Americas? (Slide 2)
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2. Who settled in the town of Vinland? (Slide 2)
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3. Who financed Christopher Columbus’ voyage?
(Slide 3)
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4. What was the name of the three ships Columbus led? (Slide 3)
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5. What was the name of the colony Columbus founded?
(Slide 4)
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6. Define the term, colony. (Slide 4)
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7. What did Columbus promise the Queen Isabella he would do? (Slide 5)
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8. What were the Native Americans (Indians) nearly wiped out by? (Slide 6)
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9. Define the term, turning point. (Slide 7)
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10. Name three countries Columbus conquered. (Slide 8)
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11. What land did Vasco Nunez Balboa claim? (Slide 9)
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12. What did Ferdinand Magellan discover? (Slide 10)
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13. Define the term, circumnavigated. (Slide 11)
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14. What was the Columbian Exchange? (Slide 12)
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15. What is a conquistador? (Slide 13)
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Who did the Spanish cause to suffer? (Slide 13)
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17. Who defeated the Aztecs? (Slide 14)
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18. Who conquered the Incas? (Slide 15)
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19. Why were the Aztecs and Incas easily defeated by the Spanish? (Slide 15)
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20. What did Ponce de Leon discover?
(Slide 16)
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21. What did Hernando De Soto discover?
(Slide 17)
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22. What did Francisco Coronado discover?
(Slide 18)
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23. What was a Presidio and a pueblo?
(Slide 19)
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24. What is was a mission?
(Slide 20)
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25. What is was a Peninsulare?
(Slide 21)
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26. What is a Creole? (Slide 21)
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27. What is a Metstizo? (Slide 21)
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28. What is an Indian? (Slide 21)
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29. What is a plantation? (Slide 22)
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30. What was the Northwest Passage? (Slide 25)
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31. What did John Cabot discover? (Slide 26)
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32. What did Giovanni Verrazano discover? (Slide 27)
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33. What did Henry Hudson discover? (Slide 28)
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34. What did Jacques Cartier discover? (Slide 29)
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35. Who founded Port Royal? (Slide 30)
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36. Define the term, alliance. (Slide 31)
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37. Define the term, mercantilism. (Slide 31)
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38. Who challenged the teachings of the Catholic Church? (Slide 32)
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39. What was Martin Luther’s movement called? (Slide 32)
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40. What did the Dutch buy from the Native Americans? (Slide 33)
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41. What was the name of the colony that became New York? (Slide 33)
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42. What did the Dutch bring from Africa? (Slide 33)
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