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Age of Exploration
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Land Bridge Theory | The theory that Native Americans crossed into North America from Asia over a land bridge that once connected North America and Asia. |
| Coastal Exploration Theory | The theory that Native Americans sailed across the Pacific Ocean to come to North America |
| Three G's | "Gold, God, and glory," these words describe the motives for European exploration and colonization starting in the fifteenth century. Europeans set out to acquire wealth, spread religion, and achieve personal fame and national power. |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to Asia |
| Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. |
| Colony | An area under full control by another country that is usually far away. |
| Northwest Passage | A water route to Asia between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic that many explorers looked for. Was not found until the early 1900s. |
| Conquistador | A Spanish explorer who came to the New World during the 16th century to conquer land. |
| Plantation | Large farm with wealthy owners where crops are usually grown and harvested by slaves. |
| Cash Crop | Crops and plants grown that would earn plantation owners a lot of money, such as cotton, sugar, and tobacco. |
| Henry Hudson | An English explorer who explored for the Dutch. He claimed the Hudson River around present day New York and called it New Netherland. He also had the Hudson Bay named for him |
| Samuel de Champlain | French explorer who explored Canada. Is considered the "Father of New France" |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | Italian who explored east coast of US from North Carolina to New York for France in 1524 |
| New Spain | 1400s and 1500s *Spain controlled the New World - North and Central America, the Caribbean and East Indies *Spaniards developed a system of large manors using Native American slaves, eventually importing African slaves to supply their labor needs |
| New France | French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded 1608. New France fell to the British in 1763. |
| New Netherland | A colony founded by the Dutch in the New World. It became New York. |
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