American History 1121 checkup B

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Amerigo Vespucci

______________ was the first European to use the term "New World" in reference to the American continents

Tenochitilan,Montezuma

_________________ as the Aztec capital,___________ was the capital

Magellan,portugal

_________________ sailed under the flag of ________________

Las Casas,Protector of the Indians

_________________, a priest of the Dominican order and whose father had sailed with Columbus,advocated Indian rights and earned the title"________________"

Louis Joilet,James Marquette

_______________________,a trader,________________________ a priest,explored the Mississipi River in search of the Northwest Passage

Narvaez-de Vaca,United States

__________________expedition opened the door to the the vast area of North America known as the ____________

Champlain

_______________opened North America to French Colonization

La Salle,North America

______________ambition was to find the mouth of the Mississipi River and claim the interior of ____________________ for France

Cortier,was not worth anything

___________discovered the St.Lwrence River,which he sailed as far as the Lachine Rapids,but he returned to France believing America____________________

Francisco Pizarro

brutal conqueror of the Inca Empire

Martin Waldseemuller

cartographer who named Amerigo's Land

Hernando de Soto

explored southeastern states and crossed Mississipi River

Francisco Coronado

explored southwestern states and conquered Hawikuh

Lopez de Cardenas

first led Europeans to view Grand Canyon

Hernando Cortez

greedy conqueror of the Aztec Empire

Juan Ponce de Leon

searched for Fountain of Youth

Black Empire,encomienda

La Leyenda Negra, meaning "________________",was part of the Spanish ________________ system

Great Lakes,Gulf of Mexico

La Salle traveled the length of the Mississipi River from the _______________ to its mouth at the ______________

round,Asia,large,earth

Magellan's voyage was important because it proved the earth was _______________,___________ can be reached by sailing west,The new world was a ___________ continent,the _______ was much larger than had been thought.

Pedro Carbal

Portuguese discover of Brazil

St Lawrence river,trading ports,fur trade

The Roman merchants hired Champlain to explore the _______________ because they wanted him to establish a _______________ because they wanted to create a lucrative__________ in North America

Isthmus of Panama

The first Spanish continental settlement was located on the _______________

Line of Decramation

The treaty of Tordesillas established the ____________________ between the Spanish and Portuguese holdings

New York harbor,Hudson River

Verrazano searched for a Northwest Passage and sailed into _________________,but failed to discover the ________________

New Orleans

What American city was a fulfillment of La Salle's dream of a New World Paris?


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