Lesson 3 "The Spainsh Empire"

Juan Ponce de Leon

• was looking for the fountain of youth

  • Found Florida instead (1513)

Panfilo de Narvaez

was looking for gold and explored tampa bay

Hernando de Soto

The first European explorer documented to cross the Mississippi river and landed in Florida in 1539

What is St. Augustine

• A spanish outpost that was made to stop the French Protestant from exploring and trying to conquer their land.

• The first and oldest European town in present-day United States

What is Fort Caroline

• A French Fort

  • In 1565, the Spainsh attacked the French

• Had religious conflict leading to the French to be massacred by the Spanish

How did the Spanish control the Native Americans

• Killed the Native Americans who resisted

• The Encomienda system

  • The spanish crown granted settlers to force labor onto the Indigenous people

What did the Spanish NOT view the Native Americans as

as “racially inferior”

What did Bartolome de Las Cases think of the Native Americans

As people who need better treatement as they are also human beings

What was the Mestizo Factor

A social hierarchy that has spaniards at the top, following spaniards born in america, Indians, Mullatoes, Mestizos, and enslaved Africans

Who were the Mestizo’s and how are they here

The Mestizo’s were the mixed people who came from Europeans and Native American heritage. Due to the lack of European woman, many European men had children with Native Americans instead.

Why the Pueblo Revolt happen

Due to the Pueblo, people being forced to be Catholic, and cauing them to forget their own traditions

Horses and Native American Culture

• Horses came du to the Spaniads being defeated

  • Showed high status to the Indigenous people

  • Allowed the Indigenous people to have better mobility

What did the Indigenous people do with the Buffalo after hunting it

They would us it to

• hid for shelter/ their tippe, clothes, shoes, and bedding

• meat for food

• horns for eating utensils

What are Catholic Missions

Places to convert the indigenous people to Catholic by the Spanish

What is the Encomienda System

Spanish labor system forcing Natives to work for colonists.

What is the Spanish Armada(1588)

A large fleet of spanish ships that tried to invade England, however they were defeated

What was the result of the the defeat for the Spanish in the Spanish Armada (1588)

It showed England’s naval supremacy and lead to England colonizing the East Coast

Who is Sir Walter Raleigh

An explorer who began at the request of Queen Elizabeth and named Virgina after her (the “Virgin Queen”)

Who is John White

someone helping the settlement on Roanoke Island, but left to england for more supplies

What is Roanoke known as?

A lost colony

Who is Virginia Dare

The first english child born in the Americas

What is the significance of the word “CROTOAN”

It was carved at the entrance of the Roanoke settlement with everything abadoned and pillaged (they were never found again)

What was the impact of Spain’s Empire on the Americas

• Huge armies and native conquest

• May religious conflict

• Colonial administration and life

• People were now exploring the Americas with explorer, conquistadores, and priest settling

How were the Spanish able to conquer and colonize the Americas?

• France and Europe were to busy with religious conflict and political disputes

• The formation of a national and religious unity helped Spain dominate Europe as well as the Americas

What were the Spanish conquistadores’ goals for exploring the Americas?

• God, Glory, and Gold

  • Like Juan Ponce de Leon who wanted to look for gold and Indian Slaves

Why did the Spanish first eplore North America

• For “God, Glory, and Gold”

  • To convery Indigenous people to Catholism

  • to develop their empire more and Spain was fearful France and England would threathen thier imperial monopoly in the Americas

  • to fin gold, silver, and later on slaves

Why did the Spanish establish St. Augustine?

• To keep the French Protestant out

• To protect their shipping routes

• To colonize North Florida before France could

• the first permanent European settlement

In what ways did the Spainsh form of colonization shape North American history?

• Horses were now in the America’s

• A labor and status system was created based on race

• Allowed Catholicism to spread to North America