1. European Exploration

2. European Exploration Early Exploration Why? Spain’s Spark France England Roanoke (1580s) Jamestown (1607) Problems Economic Boom Columbian Exchange

4. Gold & other riches

7. Not the first European to cross the ocean

8. Map of European Exploration

10. Destroyed his ship

12. Smallpox decimated the native population

13. Differing views of warfare

14. Spanish technology

16. Crushed the native population at the village of Acoma

17. About 800 people were killed

18. Women & children were sold into slavery

21. United Native Americans in New Mexico

22. Drove Spain out of the area for about 10 years

25. Became a key trading post in the French fur trade

26. Helped establish an alliance with the Huron Indians

28. First settled in 1585 as a base for pirate ships

29. Poor relations with the native population

31. Considered to be the first “successful” English colony

33. “Gentlemen” refused to do work

34. Not prepared to survive on their own

36. Negotiated with the Powhatans to obtain access to more food

37. Implement a “no work, no food” policy in the colony

40. Spring 1609 – 188 survived

41. December 1609 – 500 settlers

43. John Rolfe developed a new strain of tobacco that flourished in Virginia

44. Rolfe married Pocahontas

46. In 1622 Openchancanough struck back

47. Killed about 25% of Jamestown’s settlers

48. Colonists responded by setting out to destroy the Powhatans

49. Population devastated

52. Horses, brought by the Spanish, spread to the Great Plains by the mid-1700s

53. Made hunting buffalo easier & more efficient

57. More than one disease could hit at the same time

58. Deadly nature of the diseases

59. Smallpox

60. Chicken pox

61. Influenza

62. Measles