5th SS Ch 4
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- France
- Canada, New France sources of wealth furs and trade
- Africans
- peoples brought to the Americas against their will and forced to work for the colonists
- missionaries
- people who came to the Americas to convert native peoples to Christianity
- Tisquantum
- Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to fish and plant crops that would do well
- Holland
- along the Hudson River, New Amsterdam, sources of wealth furs and trade
- What was the reason for the Virginia Company coming to America?
- to make a profit for the company
- Motecuhzoma
- Aztec leader when Europeans came to Mexico
- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
- Spanish explorer who heard stories about the Seven Cities of Gold and set out to find them
- Indian peoples
- peoples who died from hunger, overwork, and diseases after being enslaved by the Spanish
- Jacques Cartier
- explorer who looked for the Northwest Passage
- England
- eastern coast of North America sources of wealth tobacco
- Samuel de Champlain
- explorer who founded Quebec and Montreal
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- European who founded a colony at Roanoke Island that soon disappeared
- What was the French governments reasons for coming to America?
- gain wealth and power like the Spanish
- Hernando Cortes
- leader of the Spanish conquistadors who conquered the Aztecs
- Juan Ponce de Leon
- Spanish explorer who looked for the Fountain of Youth and named present-day Florida
- What was the reason for the pilgrims coming to America?
- to find religious freedom
- Spain
- Middle and South America, sources of wealth gold, silver, and crops
- Hernando de Soto
- explorer who claimed for Spain all of what is today the southeastern United States
- Atahuallpa
- leader of Incas killed by the Spanish
- Francisco Pizarro
- Spanish conquistador who ordered his soldiers to kill the Inca emperor