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Explorer who sighted the Bahamas on Oct. 12, 1492

Christopher Columbus

Did Christopher Columbus reach the present-day US mainland?

No

Lookout from whom Columbus stole credit and reward

Rodrigo

Columbus’s primary motivations regarding the natives

Gold and enslavement

Methods that caused native genocide

Warfare, forced labor, and cruel punishments

Percentage of the native population killed off

90%

Italian ship chandler who outfitted Columbus

Amerigo Vespucci

Person who published letters in 1504 naming the "New World"

Amerigo Vespucci

Individual for whom America is named

Amerigo Vespucci

Who writes history, according to the concept of "Winners"?

The victors

European nation that explored North America first

Spain

Nation that eventually won control of North America

England

Reason England established the Virginia settlement

Wealth (gold and copper)

Original meaning of the term "Virginia"

The whole Atlantic coast

The English settlement attempt that failed before Jamestown

Roanoke

The first permanent English settlement in North America

Jamestown

Physical environment of the Jamestown settlement

Swampy land filled with disease

Percentage of early Jamestown settlers who died

80%

Extreme survival tactic used by Jamestown settlers

Cannibalism

The military leader and dictator of Jamestown

Capt. John Smith

John Smith’s method for making Jamestown stable

Forcing settlers to work

Resource for which John Smith betrayed the natives

Land

Father of Pocahontas

Powhatan chief

Spouse of Pocahontas

John Rolfe

Person who introduced tobacco as a cash crop

John Rolfe

Individual known as the "savior" of the settlement

John Rolfe