Brief History of the Americas Page 1

The Spanish explored for gold, the French were more interested in

• silver
• land
• converting the natives to Christianity
• furs

The first Americans probably migrated from this continent

• Greenland 
• Africa
• Europe
• Asia

Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry VIII

• Catherine of Aragon
• Anne Boleyn
• Jane Seymour
• Anne of Cleves

Modern day country of the Aztec Empire

• Peru
• Mexico
• El Salvador
• Belize

Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate (go all the way around) the world?

• Magellan 
• Columbus
• Balboa
• Vasco da Gama

These "gentlemen" could afford their passage to the New World 

• Indentured Servants 
• slaves
• conquistadors
• proprietors 

People who belong to a certain place are 

• Nomads
• Indigenous 
• Indentured Servants 
• Citizens

Father of Henry VIII

• Henry IV
• Henry VII
• Arthur I
• Gregory VII

What can you infer from the fact that Elizabeth I would have lost power if she had married?

• married people had no rights back then
• very few English monarchs ever married
• marriage was looked down upon by English nobility 
• women faced serious discrimination back then 

This was the first permanent English colony in North America 

• Roanoke
• Jamestown 
• Pennsylvania
• Massachusetts Bay