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WGU IOC4 Module 3a
The Americas: Pre and Post Colonization - Explorers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A Spanish Conquistador, who visited New Mexico and other parts of what are now the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542 and was the first documented European to visit the Grand Canyon. He was in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola. | Francisco Vasquez de Coronado |
| Sanish Conquistadore who took on Montezuma in the Valley of Mexico in 1518. | Hernan Cortes |
| A Spanish explorer and conquistador who, while leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, was the first European to discover the Mississippi River. | Hernando de Soto |
| An Italian navigator and explorer commonly credited as the first European to discover North America, in 1497, notwithstanding Norseman Leif Ericson's landing (c. 1003). | John Cabot |
| An English privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Queen Elizabeth I awarded him a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. | Sir Francis Drake |
| Admiral of New England was an English soldier, sailor, and author. He is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia. | John Smith |
| An English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. He is presumed to have died in 1611 in Hudson Bay, Canada, after he was set adrift,following a mutiny. | Henry Hudson |
| A famed English writer, poet, soldier, courtier and explorer. He was responsible for the attempts at colonization at Roanoke Island. | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| A French explorer, who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first who described and mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River. | Jacques Cartier |
| "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, geographer, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, ethnologist, diplomat, chronicler, and the founder and administrator of Quebec City. | Samuel de Champlain |
| A French explorer. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. He claimed the entire Mississippi basin for France. | Sieur de La Salle |
| Sailed for Cathay (China) in 1492 in the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. Unkowingly discovered the Americas. | Christopher Columbus |
| The first person to demonstrate that the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 was not the eastern appendage of Asia, but rather a new continent. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| The first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between South Carolina and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay, in 1524.(Italian explorer in service to France.) | Giovanni Da Verazzanno |
| Sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers, often of nobel birth, who subdued the Native Americans and created the Spanish empire in the New World. | Conquistadores |
| Treaty (1494) to resolve competing land claims of Spain and Portugal in the New World. Divided the world along a north-south line in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, granting to Portugal Brazil and to Spain all other territories. | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| An exploitative labor system that rewarded conquistadores in the New World by granting them local villages and control over native labor. | Encomienda |
| Sixteenth-century religious movement to reform and challenge the spiritual authority of the Roman Catholic Church, associated with figures such as Martin Luther and John Calvin. | Protestant Reformation |
| The author of "Voyages" an entreprenurial vision of English settlement in the New World. | Richard Hakluyt |
| A declaration of sovereignty and war read by Spanish military forces to assert their sovereignty over the Americas. There was little thought given to whether native peoples even understood this measure of "justification". | Requerimiento |
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