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Explorers &
English
Colonies
Monday 09/17/12
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Lesson 1 Vocabulary
Lesson 2 (3 columns)
Lesson 3 Question #1
Venn Diagram
Summary
Map Quiz # 2
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European
Explorers
Cornell Notes
Portuguese and Spanish
Exploration
Exploration
1400’s Europeans began searching for new
route to Indies
Indies- East Asia and Indonesia
source of spices, gold, jewels, and
perfume
Wanted to find new route to cut of
Arab Merchants
Portuguese
Explorers
First to reach “spice islands” by sailing
around African Coast
Prince Henry the Navigator
Set up school to teach how to navigate
african coast
Bartholomeu Dias reached the Cape of
Good Hope
Vasco de Gamma followed same route and
landed on West coast of India
Christopher
Columbus
From Genoa, Italy
Believed he could
reach Indies by
sailing west
King Ferdinand and
Queen Isabella of
Spain financed
voyage
Christopher
Columbus
1492 Set sail in
three ships
Nina, Pinta, and
Santa Maria
Believed the
distance from
Europe and Asia
was 2,500 miles
Actual distance
Coloumbus
On sea for two months and found no land
Oct. 12, 1492 spotted island in Caribbean
(San Salvador)
Called the people Indios- later became
Indians
Made four trips to South America
Never set foot on what is now the United
States
Amerigo Vespucci/ Vasco
Nunez de Balboa
Vespucci was first European to realize
Columbus found new continent
came to conclusion after exploring coast for
Portugal in 1499
Cartographer (map maker) later named the
entire hemisphere America after him
Balboa was first to set eyes on Pacific ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
1519, Ferdinand Magellan set to explore
Pacific Ocean
Sailed east coast of South Ameria
Found strait of Magellan- named after him
which led to pacific ocean
The English and the
Northwest Passage
King Henry VII hears about Columbus and
sends out explorers
John Cabot- first from England-- believed
he could find quicker route- West from
England
1st Voyage found Newfoundland
2nd found North America as far south as
Delaware
Francis Drake
Queen Elizabeth I produced new English
explorer
“Sea Dogs”
plundered, or stole from Spanish
shipping while they explored new
territory
Drake sailed around the world steeling
Rules of Civility
Handed out is a copy of Rules Civility
In groups of 4 read through the rules and
then rewrite them in modern english
Then as a group come up with where you
think this document is from, and why they
might have used it.
The Southen
Colonies
Roanoke Colony
Queen Elizabeth sent Sir Walter Raleigh
to set up colony in North Carolina (1584)
3 years later sent 113 colonist to
Roanoke Island
a ship dropped them off and the
Spanish attacked England, 2 years
later when the shipped returned the
colony had vanished
Virginia
King James I gave the Virginia Company
the right to establish a colony in North
America
Joint-Stock Company expected to make a
profit
Joint-Stock people who buy shares and
own a part of the company
Jamestow
nMay 1607 sent 104
men and boys
forced to look for
silver and gold
instead of planting
crops
Summer half die
due to starvation
and malaria
Colony would
be
John
Smith
saved by John
Smith
Asked Powhatan
people for food and
was captured
Chief's Daughter
Pocahontas
persuaded dad to
spare life
traded with
Jamestown Cont.
Colonist John Rolfe learned how to plant
Tobacco which would become profitable
and number one export
John Rolfe would later marry Pocahontas