1. Communities and Their Histories
Chapter 7

2. Vocabulary Explorer: A person who travels looking for new lands
Fleet: A large group of ships
Fortification: Walls around a building used for protection
Representative Government: Voters elect people to speak for them in a representative government.

3. Iroquois Oneida County, New York Quebec Canada
Iroquis lived here when explores arrived
Corn main crop
Set up government
Rules protects rights groups
Explorers had different customs
Led to conflict

4. Early Explorers Portugal Spain France England Traded with India, China
Very long route
Searching for a water route
Hoping to make trade faster

5. Places Oneida County, New York: home to the Iroquois.
Portugal: in south western Europe
Spain: a country in south western Europe
France: a country in western Europe
England: the southern part of Great Britain
St. Augustine, Florida: a city; the oldest settlement in the USA
Quebec City: a city in Canada
Jamestown, Virginia: the first permanent English settlement in America
James River: the river that Jamestown in located on

6. Christopher Columbus Born in Italy Goal: find route to Asia
Sailed for Spain
Landed in The Bahamas
Explored America

7. Hernando de Soto
Sailed for Spain
Explored North America

8. Juan Ponce de Leon
Sailed for Spain
Explored Florida

9. Jacques Cartier Sailed for France
Explored Canada (the St. Lawrence River)

10. Samuel de Champlain
Sailed for France
Explored Canada (Quebec)

11. John Cabot
Born in Italy
Sailed for England
Explored North America

12. Henry Hudson Sailed for England and Holland
Explored the Hudson Bay Area

13. Spanish Community Ponce de Leon St. Augustine Florida Land of flowers
Hoped to find riches
Land perfect for farming
1521- brought 200 settlers hoping to build a city
Spanish landed first
Battle broke out
Ponce de Leon killed by arrow

14. Fight for Florida 1564- French set up colony on St, John's river
Threatened Spanish treasure ships safety
Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles- most experience admiral sent to be governor Florida

15. Fight for Florida Castillo de San Marcos Sheltered from ocean
Defended easily
Later called St. Augustine
Defeated French fleet with help of hurricane
Coast Florida controlled by Spanish
St. Augustine 1st permanent European settlement in North America

16. St. Augustine today Beaches Visit historic sights
Oldest standing house in US
Oldest stone fort- Castillo de San Marcos
Fort Moses- protected Africans from slavery

17. Don Pedro Mendenez de Aviles
Sailed for Spain
Explored St. Augustine, Florida

18. Christopher Newport
Sailed for England
Explored Jamestown

19. John Smith
English
Lead Jamestown

20. Powhatan
Algonquin chief
Lived in what is now Virginia

21. Pocahontas A Native American woman Helped the English settlers
Married an Englishman