Exploration (American History)

God, Gold, Glory

• Spain

• France

• England

• United States

What was the INITIAL reason that European explorers sailed to the Americas?

• to find new sea routes to Asia

• to form military alliances

• to spread Christianity to Africa

• to find new sources of cheap labor

Which reason best completes this list?

• to spread democratic ideals

• to improve efficiency in manufacturing

• to locate potential military allies

• to claim new territory

Which motive BEST completes the diagram?

• to promote free enterprise

• to expand empires

• to extend democracy

• to found utopian communities

a sea passage between the Atlantic and Pacific along the north coast of North America

• Northwest Passage

• Mayflower Compact

• Columbian Exchange

• Proclamation of 1763

French colonists ...

• converted American Indians to Catholicism

• profited from fur trading in the Great Lakes Region

• implemented the cottage industry

a religious community where Native Americans were converted to Christianity (Catholicism)

• missions

• forts

• presidios

• cities

Spanish colonists .....

• focused primarily on fur trading

• established Catholic missions

• promoted political freedom

• created an early system of public schools

What was responsible for the death of so many Native Americans?

• Advanced Weaponry
• Tribal Warfare
• Hernan Cortes
• Disease

What is the Columbian Exhange?

• Exchange of ideas between America and Europe

• Exchange of different plants, animals, diseases between the New and Old World.

• Exchange of disease between colonists and Native Americans.

• Exchange of money between the Wergild and Ordeal