European Exploration Vocab

European Colonization

by Danielle Spring

​Vocabulary

• ​Northwest Passage:

  • ​a nonexistent water route through North America to Asia

• ​Pilgrims

  • ​English Protestants who rejected England's established church. They came to North America to worship freely

​Vocabulary

• ​triangular trade: a trade route with three legs linking North America, Africa, and the West Indies.

• ​Middle Passage: sailing route from Africa to the Americas

​Vocabulary

• ​advance: move forward or make progress.

• ​mutinies: uprisings

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Page 109. Soon after, French, Dutch, and English explorers probed the east coast of North America, looking for a _________, a nonexistent water route through North America to Asia.

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Page 109. Where and What was New Spain? In ____ Christopher Columbus landed in the West Indies.

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Page 109. Christopher Columbus claimed the Americas for who?

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Page 110. What happened to American Indians? The Spanish and other _________ brought diseases that American Indians had never faced before.

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Page 110. New France. During the 1500s, France sponsored explorers who came to North America looking for a ____________.

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Page 110. The First English Colonies. During the 1600s and early 1700s, English colonies expanded to cover the east coast of __________.

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Page 111. These settlers were ________, English Protestants who rejected England's established church.

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Page 112. New Netherland. The Dutch, from the _________, also sent explorers and settlers to North America.

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Page 112. Slavery in the English Colonies. The African slave trade became part of the ____________, a trade route with three legs linking North America, Africa, and the West Indies.

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Page 112. The deadly __________ was the sailing route from Africa to the Americas.

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Page 113. Enslaved Africans were forced aboard ships and chained together to prevent escapes and _________, or revolts.

Open Ended

Describe "advance" in your own words.

Multiple Choice

​a nonexistent water route through North America to Asia

• Northwest Passage

• Middle Passage

• triangular trade

• Pilgrim

Multiple Choice

A trade route with three legs linking North America, Africa, and the West Indies.

• mutiny

• triangular trade

• Pilgrim

• Northwest Passage

Multiple Choice

English Protestants who rejected England's established church. They came to North America to worship freely.

• Pilgrims

• mutiny

• Middle Passage

Multiple Choice

Sailing route from Africa to the Americas.

• Pilgrim

• Northwest Passage

• Middle Passage

• triangular trade

Multiple Choice

Uprisings

• Northwest Passage

• Middle Passage

• mutiny

• Pilgrim