American history

Question 1

came to present-day Florida in 1513 looking for fountain of youth

Answer 1

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 2

site of first permanent Spanish settlement in the new world

Answer 2

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Question 3

wrote “A history of the Indies” in which he harshly criticized Spanish mistreatment of native populaions

Answer 3

Bartholme de las Casas

Question 4

Tribes fell into two large language groups in the northeast:

Answer 4

the Iroquoian and the Algonquian

Question 5

sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, verifying that there was a sea route to India around the tip of Africa

Answer 5

Bartelmo Diaz

Question 6

commissioned by King Henry VII to explore the new world; he would later claim Newfoundland for England

Answer 6

John Cabot

Question 7

First European to see the South Seas from the new world. Named it the Pacific

Answer 7

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Question 8

Made two trips to the new world in 1534 and 1535, sailing up the Saint Lawrence River.

Answer 8

Jacques Cartier

Question 9

discovered the Grand Canyon

Answer 9

Francisco Coronado

Question 10

discovered the Mississippi River in 1541

Answer 10

Hernando de Soto

Question 11

explored the West Coasts of south and north America as far up as present-day Washington State

Answer 11

Sir Francis Drake

Question 12

A conquistador who conquered the pueblo tribes of the American Southwest and established the territory of New Mexico in 1599. Also introdued the horse to the American Southwest

Answer 12

Juan de Onate

Question 13

founded the colony of Quebec in 1608

Answer 13

Samuel de Champlain

Question 14

system under which a colonist granted a piece of land was thereby granted the labor of all the people living on the land

Answer 14

encomienda

Question 15

pope who divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal by drawing a line on a map

Answer 15

Pope Alexander VI