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When the Spanish settled in the Americas, a class system emerged. What name is given to people who were born in Spain and traveled to the New World to settle down? |
Peninsulares |
What Spanish social class identifies people born in the Americas to two Spanish parents? |
Creoles |
What name is given to the social class that identifies those born to one Spanish parent and one Native American parent? |
Mestizos |
Identify the Spanish priest who spoke out against the mistreatment of the Native American population and convinced the Spanish government to end their enslavement. |
Bartolomé de las Casas |
The beginning of the Protestant Reformation is said to have been signaled when this German priest presented his 95 Theses. |
Martin Luther |
What mighty naval force was defeated in 1588, opening up the Atlantic Ocean to other countries hoping to settle in the Americas? |
Spanish Armada |
Because Native Americans lacked resistance, a large number of them lost their lives to infection and disease. What is another word for resistance? |
immunity |
Identify the oldest permanent European settlement found in the United States. |
St. Augustine |
What location was extremely important to Spain because it was a defensive barrier between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico even though it had little to offer in terms of treasure? |
Florida |
Jean Ribault and French settlers have been credited with building what former French site? |
Fort Caroline |
What did the Spanish call a common village or town? |
pueblo |
Tobacco and sugarcane were the main export crops of what region? |
West Indies |
What two countries sought out to spread Catholicism throughout the Americas? |
Spain and France |
Identify the two countries who hoped to spread Protestantism throughout the Americas. |
England and the Netherlands |
A bay and a river in North America are named after a man who thought he had sailed through the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. Name him. |
Henry Hudson |
Who would follow French fur traders into Native American villages once relations were established in order to teach Catholicism to the Native Americans? |
missionaries |
Named after the king of France, what colony did Robert Cavalier de La Salle claim for his country? |
Louisiana |
Identify the French settlement founded in 1718. |
New Orleans |
What colony did the Dutch West India Company found in 1623? |
New Netherland |
The Manhattoes accepted trade goods in exchange for land that would eventually become what Dutch settlement? |
New Amsterdam |
Identify the man who traded for the land that would build the new Dutch settlement. |
Peter Minuit |
What was the supposed value of the trade goods the Manhattoes accepted? |
$24 |