Tuesday, Sept. 41. Turn in your “All About Me” worksheet (put on

my desk) if you did not on Friday

2.Update your Table of Contents if you did not on Friday

Date Title Entry #

8/30 European Exploration and Colonization Timeline 58/31 America Before Columbus 68/31 Why Explore? What were the reasons? Notes 7

3. Get out your binder for binder check

#7Why Explore? What were the reasons?

I. Causes Political = Expansion of Empire

#7Why Explore? What were the reasons?

I. Causes Political = Expansion of Empire

Economic = Shorter trade route to Asia (Northwest Passage) Profit (Mercantilism)

natural resources (gold, corn, lumber, tobacco)

#7Why Explore? What were the reasons?

I. Causes Political = Expansion of Empire

Economic = Shorter trade route to Asia (Northwest Passage) Profit (Mercantilism)

natural resources (gold, corn, lumber, tobacco)

Religious = Christianize the Natives (competition b/w Catholics and Protestants)

#7Why Explore? What were the reasons?

I. Causes Political = Expansion of Empire

Economic = Shorter trade route to Asia (Northwest Passage) Profit (Mercantilism)

natural resources (gold, corn, lumber, tobacco)

Religious = Christianize the Natives (competition b/w Catholics and

Protestants)

Curiosity and Adventure

#7Why Explore? What were the reasons?

II. Effects

#7Why Explore? What were the reasons?

II. Effects Europeans reach the Americas

#7Why Explore? What were the reasons?

II. Effects Europeans reach the Americas

European settlement of the Americas

#7Why Explore? What were the reasons?

II. Effects Europeans reach the Americas

European settlement of the Americas

Expanded knowledge of world geography

#7Why Explore? What were the reasons?

II. Effects Europeans reach the Americas

European settlement of the Americas

Expanded knowledge of world geography

Development of trade (Columbian Exchange)

#7Why Explore? What were the reasons?

II. Effects Europeans reach the Americas

European settlement of the Americas

Expanded knowledge of world geography

Development of trade (Columbian Exchange)

1,000’s of Natives die because of disease and war

#7Why Explore? What were the reasons?

II. Effects Europeans reach the Americas

European settlement of the Americas

Expanded knowledge of world geography

Development of trade (Columbian Exchange)

1,000’s of Natives die because of disease and war

Africans brought to use as slave labor

European Exploration Vocabulary

1. Mercantilism an economic system in which nations increase their wealth and power by obtaining resources from their colonies and by establishing a favorable balance of trade.

2. Northwest a water route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along Passagethe northern coast of North America; Europeans since the

16th century had searched for a short route to the Far East

3. Columbian describes the interchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Exchange the Old World and the Americas following Columbus's arrival in the

Caribbean in 1492

4. Transatlantic the passage across the Atlantic from W Africa to the West Indies or Slave Trade America that was the route of the former slave trade

5. Triangular a pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the Trade African Gold Coast Trade with New England rum and then traded in

the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum.

European Exploration and Colonization

1497

Cabot searches for the Northwest Passage

1521

Cortez conquers Mx 1565

Spanish found St. Augustine

1609

Hudson searches for the Northwest Passage

1585

First English colony settled at Roanoke

1607

Jamestown founded 1620

Pilgrims landed at Plymouth

1630

Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

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