Chapter 3 Powerpoint Presentations
- 1. An Era of Exploration Chapter 3.1
- 2. The Impact of Columbus Gave hope for riches in a new land Trade began between East and West
- 3. Other Spanish Explorers Balboa- crossed Pacific Magellan- circumnavigated the globe
- 4. Other Spanish Explorers DeSoto- FL to the MS River Coronado-Arizona & New Mexico
- 5. Spain Builds an Empire Chapter 3.2
- 6. Spanish Conquistadors Cortes defeated the Aztecs they wrongly trusted him they caught deadly diseases from his crew.
- 7. Pizarro defeated the Incas because of too much fighting between themselves.
- 8. Settling “New Spain” 3 Kinds of settlements Pueblos Presidios Missions
- 9. 4 Social Classes Peninsulares Creoles Mestizos Indians
- 10. Spanish gov’t gave land grants (encomiendas) to settlers. They demanded hard labor from the Natives.
- 11. A priest named Bartolome de las Casas spoke up about mistreatment of the natives.
- 12. In his attempt to help them, he turned colonists toward Africa for labor.
- 13. Africans were brought over as slaves on plantations on sugar plantations in the Caribbean and Brazil.
- 14. Colonizing North America Chapter 3.3
- 15. Northwest Passage A direct water route to Asia was not found, so Europeans began to find ways to profit from the natural resources of America.
- 16. Religious Rivalries In 1517 Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation.
- 17. Religious Rivalries Spanish and French monarchs remained Catholic, while English and Dutch monarchs were Protestant.
- 18. Religious Rivalries In the 1530’s England and others set an established church, persecuting those who did not follow. (section 5)
- 19. New France Samuel de Champlain set up a trading post at Quebec.
- 20. New France France profited from fishing, trapping, and trading.
- 21. New France Coureurs de bois were excellent trappers and traders, not settlers.
- 22. New Netherland The Dutch settled along the Hudson River. New Amsterdam became New York much later.
- 23. Furry Problem Dutch and French created alliances with Indian groups to compete for control of fur trade.
- 24. Building the Jamestown Colony Chapter 3.4
- 25. Jamestown 1607 Seemed doomed at 1 st … settlers were more interested in getting gold than growing crops.
- 26. Jamestown 1607 By 1619, tobacco had become profitable. Women & Africans were sent to Jamestown.
- 27. Jamestown 1607 The settlers began tradition of representative gov’t (House of Burgesses).
- 28. Seeking Religious Freedom Chapter 3.5
- 29. Pilgrims wanted to separate from the Church of England, & they came to America on the Mayflower.
- 30. They set a precedent for religious freedom in our country.
- 31. They signed the Mayflower Compact to set up a gov’t with laws that would be for the good of the colony.
- 32. Problems/Help in Plymouth They arrived too late in the season to plant.
- 33. Squanto and other natives helped the Pilgrims to plant and hunt native species.