M2,L4, The Race for Empires

huge fleet of Spanish warships

(vocab word)

• charter

• Spanish Armada

• northwest passage

• protestant

water route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

(vocab word)

• protestant reformation

• Spanish Armada

• Northwest Passage

• charter

document giving permission to start a colony

(vocab word)

• charter

• Northwest Passage

• Spanish Armada

• protestants

French explorer who sailed up the Saint Lawrence River looking for the Northwest Passage

(vocab word)

• Martin Luther

• King Henry VIII

• Jacques Cartier

• King Phillip II

reformers who protested some of the Catholic Church’s practices

(vocab word)

• Spanish Armada

• protestants

• Catholics

religious movement that began as an effort to reform the Catholic Church

(vocab word)

• Protestant Reformation

• Spanish Armada

• Catholic Reformation

• English Reformation

What was the main reason King Philip II of Spain launched the Armada against England?

• (pg 55, 1st paragraph)

• • He wanted to invade England and overthrow the queen.

• • He wanted to drive the Protestants out of England.

• • He thought a victory would solve his economic problems.

• • He wanted to claim all the English colonies in the new world.

French Protestants were known as _________.

(pg 54, last paragraph)

• Anglicans

• Catholics

• Huguanots

• Muslims

Which explorer sailed under the flags of two different countries?

(pg56, 4th paragraph)

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

• Jacques Cartier

• Giovanni da Verrazano

What was the main product that the French traded for with the Native Americans?

(pg 59, 4th paragraph)

• furs

• gold

• silver

• slaves