| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| 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 |