Transcript Exploration and Colonization of America

Pre-Contact North Carolina
• __________– people native to an area
• ________BC – people arrive in North
America
• 3 early Native American cultures
• A. _____-Indian - Nomads
• B. ________ – Hunter-Gatherers
• C. Woodland/______________ –
Hunter/Farmers
West Africa
• Societies were similar to North America
• Carried on most of their trade with Europe and
Asia
• Became the center of the world’s ______ trade
• Slaves
• A. ___ ____________
• B. ___________
• C. People ___________ from other tribes
Europe
• ______ _____ – 500 to 1500 A.D. – widespread
starvation, ______, disease, and ______ in Europe
• The ___________ – the rebirth of _________, art,
and __________
• _____________ becomes main religion of Europe
• _________ – brought Europe into contact with
Asia, Europeans gained desire for Asian ______
______ _____ traveled from Italy to China in
____; wrote book about adventures; made people
want to travel
• New technologies – _____, sails, _______, guns
• Expanding ___________ – needed more space
• Trade increased – merchants wanted access to
Asia – ______, ____, porcelain
• Three G’s—in this order
• 1. ____ *any riches (gold, silver, resources)
Most important to most explorers
• 2. ___ *to convert natives
• 3. _____ *to make a name for themselves
• Main trade route was called the ____ ____ – long
and dangerous land route
• ________ – led European exploration for water
route to Asia – Vasco da Gama
• ________ – small, fast ships good for exploring
Christopher Columbus
• First European explorers to reach the Americas were
_______ – ____ _________ – Canada – around 1000 A.D.
• _________ _________ – Italian sailor working for Spain –
looking for Western water route to Asia
• ____ – 3 ships, 90 men – landed in Caribbean on the island
of San Salvador, encountered the _____ tribe
• Columbus makes _ more trips to the New World
• _____ is first European country to permanently _________
the New World
• _____________ - first spanish conqueror (____________)
• Conquered the ________ in ______.
Other Explorers
• _______ ________ – 1st European to find the
__________ of the Americas – 1499, 1502
• _________ __ _________ – 1st European to reach
North Carolina – _____
• French – _______
• _______ – ________ coast of North America
• ________ – Central and South America
Roanoke
Voyages
• English made _ voyages to the _____ _____ of North
Carolina (1584, 1585, 1587); organized by ___
______ _______ (NC capital named for him)
• 1st voyage—led by Arthur _______ and Philip
______ - landed at ________ - named land ________
for Queen __________ (the Virgin Queen) – two
local Indians (_______ and __________) came back
to England with them
• 2nd voyage—led by Richard ________ and Ralph
____ - found ____________ Bay, attempted to create
military settlement – mostly soldiers who spent their
time looking for gold – relied on the ________ to
feed them
• ended in violence with local natives, colony
was abandoned
• 3rd voyage—The ____ _______ – settled on
________ Island—a colony of men,
women, and children led by ____ ______ –
________ _____ – 1st English child born in
the New World
• lacked supplies and food – White returns to
_______, but cannot return for _____ years
– Entire colony is gone when he comes
back – No one knows what happened to
them.
Jamestown
• 1st _________ _____ settlement – Virginia in
____
• ____ _____ (military leader), John _____
(tobacco), ___________ (married Rolfe, not
Smith)
• Colony almost did not survive – bad location
• 1608 – _________ ____
• _____ (a big year): House of Burgesses (1st
representative assembly), English _____ arrive,
1st ________ brought as Indentured Servants