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Man who helped Latin American countries gain their independence
Simon Bolivar
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Last place in Spain occupied by Moors
Granada
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Muslim palace in Granada, Spain
Alhambre Palace
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Small strip of water between Europe and Africa
Strait of Gibraltar
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Rebirth of culture, trade, cities, and society in Europe
Renaissance
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Country that's quickest to regain power after 700 Years War
Portugal
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Member of Portuguese family and his contribution to Expansion
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Established a school to train sea captains
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Portuguese captain who reached the Cape of Good Hope
Bartholomew Diaz
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Portuguese captain who reached India
Vasco De Guiana
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Portuguese captain who reached the coast of Brazil
Pedro Cabral
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Movement under King Henry the 8th with Martin Luther at the head
Protestant Reformation
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Established in 1494 to separate the world between France and Spain
Line of Demarcation
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Spain's established this headquarter in America around 1510
Havana, Cuba
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This captain crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 to reach the Pacific Ocean
Captain Balboa
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Hernando Cortez
- Spanish explorer who went into Mexico in 1519
- Discovered and captured the Aztec civilization
- Found vast amounts of gold
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Sante Fe, New Mexico
Established by Spanish in 1610 as a ranching community
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Two items Spanish traded to Indians that made them fierce and able to fight off Europeans
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Fierce Indians associated with sheep
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Cash crop in Caribbean islands that stimulates the trade of slaves
Sugar Cain
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Spanish Conquistador who conquers the Incan civilization
Francisco Pizarro
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Two land forms that keep Portuguese and Spanish apart in South America
- Andes Mountain Range
- Amazon Rain Forrest
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People used for slave labor by Spanish?
by Portuguese?
- Spanish used Indians
- Portuguese used Africans
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King of a foreign nation elected by king of mother country
Vice Roy
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Name for a ship that went from Spain to Manilla
Manilla Galleon
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Pure blood Spanish born in America
Creole
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Name for a person born on the peninsula between Spain and Portugal
Peninsulare
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Name for a person of mixed Spanish and Indian decent
Mestizo
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A person of mixed African and European decent
Mulatto
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Catholic priests who settled California
Franciscan
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Gentleman on horseback
Caballero
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Fortified Spanish base in America
Presidio
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Fort in Texas captured by Spanish before the Alamo
Goliad
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Spanish explorer of Florida associated with the Fountain of Youth
Ponce de Leon
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Survivor of the Narvaez expedition
Corbeza de Vasca
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Spanish explorer of California who was searching for gold that Corbeza de Vasca had told of
Francisco Coronado
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Name meaning the "estate plain"
Llano Estacado
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Spanish Conquistador who was first Spaniard to cross the Mississippi River and has a bridge named after him in Memphis, Tennessee
Hernando Desoto
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Famous ship used by Spanish
Golden Hind
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Spanish name for a cowboy
Vaquero
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Father/Governor of French Canada
Samuel Champlain
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Year in which Quebec was established
1608
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Name the English gave for French Acadia when they captured the province
Nova Scotia
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Indian tribe in Canada
Hurons
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Anti-French Indian tribe found in New York
Iroquois
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French name given to fur traders that translates as "runner of the woods"
Courier De Bois
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Priests in Canada who wore black robes
Jesuits
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French explorers of the upper Mississippi River region
Marquette and Joliet
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First French explorer to reach the Gulf of Mexico
LeSalle
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French name meaning "sir"
Sueur
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French name for the female equivalent of a "sir"
Dame
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Year in which French establish Mobile, Alabama
1702
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Ruling family of Spain
Hapsburgs
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Ruling family of France
Bourbons
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French fort that got destroyed by Spanish in St. Augustine, FL
Fort Caroline
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French protestants during the Protestant Reformation
Huguenots
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Year English establish Charleston
1670
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Year Spanish establish Pensacola, FL
1699
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French word for dried/salted meat
Boucan
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Leading French authority during Expansion
Charles Deguale
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French fort in Alabama destroyed during French and Indian War
Fort Toulouse
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All able bodied men 18 plus
Militia
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Frech fort in current day Pittsburg where the French and Indian War started
- Fort Duquesne called "Fort Necessity" by the British
- British attack lead by George Washington
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Location outside Quebec city where British defeat the French in 1759
The Plains of Abraham
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Location where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet
Strait of Mackinac
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To cut off circulation to a tree
Girdle
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King of France from 1643 to 1715 from the Bourbon Family
King Louis the XIV
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Name for a French soldier
marquis
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Name for the rapids between Lake Superior and Lake Huron on border of Canada and U.S
oldest settlement in Michigan
Sault Ste Marie
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Two rivers which allow travel from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi
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War of the Grand Alliance
King Williams War
- Fought from 1689 to 1698
- Inconclusive
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War of Spanish Succession
Queen Anne's War
- Fought from 1701 to 1713
- Britain stops France and Spain from becoming a superpower
- Britain gets control of Hudson Bay, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Rock of Gibraltar
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Yamasee War
Fought between British colonials and Indian tribes between 1715 and 1717
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War of Austrian Succession
King George II's War
Fought from 1740 to 1748
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English trading company
East Indian Trading Company
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French and Indian War
Seven Years War
- Fought from 1756 to 1763
- Ended with the Treaty of Paris 1763
- France loses all its land in North America except for two Islands off the coast of Canada kept for drying fish
- Louisiana goes from France to Spain
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Name for colonists faithful to King George
Tories
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Name for colonists against King George
Patriots
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Name of the Massachusetts militia
The Minute Men
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Event in Boston where British kill five colonists
The Boston Massacre
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Colonial lawyer who defended the British soldiers who killed colonists in Boston Massacre
John Adams
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Organization that spread news about the revolution throughout the colonies
Committee of Correspondence
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First battles of the American Revolution
Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts
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Fort Ticonderoga
on Lake Champlain
in NewYork
- Built by French
- Seized by British in the Seven Years War
- Captured by forces under control of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold during American Revolution
- Cannons from there cause British to leave Boston
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Phrase written by Thomas Paine regarding fair weather Patriots
"Summer soldiers and sunshine Patriots"
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Patriots forced British out of Boston from this location
with weapons and cannons from Ticonderoga
Bunker Hill
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Name for the day when British left Boston
Evacuation Day
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French soldier who fought for the U.S during the war for independence
marquis de Lafayette
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German soldier who trained U.S soldiers
Baron von Steuben
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Polish man who is considered the father of the American calvary and died at the Battle of Savannah
Pulaski
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Winter fort of the U.S Army in Pennsylvania
Valley Forge
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Battle Americans under Benedict Arnold win which convinces French to give aid
Saratoga in New York
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Congress that met in Philadelphia to elect a commander in chief and write the Constitution
Continental Congress
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Leader of the French Army during the American Revolution
Rochambeau
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Spanish contribution to the American Revolution
Contributed money and weapons to the American Army
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Battle of Yorktown
- Took place in Virginia
- American soldiers under Alexander Hamilton back the British under Cornwallis to the coast where French ships finally arrive to block an escape by water
- British surrender
- Cornwallis sends a subordinate to surrender to Benjamin Lincoln who was forced to surrender at Charleston
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Fierce British command on horseback
Tarleton's Legion
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700 Years War
- European powers fight the Ottoman Empire until late 1400's
- Ottomans are finally driven out which causes Islam not to take over Christianity
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English ''Sea Dogs"
- Would lie in wait along the Atlantic coast of North America and capture gold from Spanish ships
- 1/5th of the gold would go to Queen Elizabeth
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Year in which Spanish settle Texas
1715
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Year in which Spanish settle California
1760
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Names of two French brothers who establish towns in Louisiana
- Iberville LeMoyne
- Bienville LeMoyne
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Allies from 1700 on
Spain and France
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American soldier known as the "Swamp Fox"
Francis Marion
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American soldier known as the "Game Cox"
Pickens
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Kings Mount
- Battle of American Revolution
- Located in South Carolina
- Decisive battle where Patriots defeat Loyalists
- British major of Loyalists, Patrick Ferguson is killed
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Battle of Cowpens
- Battle in the American Revolution
- Located in South Carolina
- Decisive American victory
- Daniel Morgan lead Americans
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German mercenaries under British control
Hessians
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Known as the father of the American Navy
John Paul Jones
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Second country after the U.S to gain independence
Haiti
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Original name of Duluth, Minnesota that means "head of the lake"
Fond Du Lac
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Name of the ship carrying ore that was lost on Lake Michigan in 1950's
Edmund Fitzgerald
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French translation of Grand Tetons
Breast of a woman
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French name for the Rocky Mountains
"Shining Mountains"
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Two Indian tribes that harvested rice in Minnesota and Wisconsin
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Invading species brought into the Great Lakes by ships
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Range that contained vast amounts of ore in Minnesota
Mesabi Range
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Component needed to make steel
Iron Ore
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City in Indiana on the end of Lake Michigan where steel was made
Gary, Indiana
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Guide who led the Lewis and Clark Expedition up the Missouri River
Charbano
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Native American from current day Idaho who led the Lewis and Clark Expedition from the Rocky Mountains as far as was familiar to her
Sacagawea
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Name for American fur traders in the Rockies
- Mountain Men
- Kit Carson was a famous Mountain Man
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Reason Georgia was established
To be a military buffer zone between to protect Charleston
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British explorer who established Georgia
James Oglethorpe
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British fort of St. Simons Island
Fort Frederica
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English King from 1760 to 1820
King George
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Famous people who were at the Alamo
Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Colonel Travis
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French term that means "narrows" for its location between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan
Detroit
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City in Minnesota that was established by a Jesuit priest, Marquette, and is famous for dairying
Green Bay
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Minnesota city that is the first point on Lake Superior
Duluth
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Guilford Courthouse
- Battle of American Revolution
- Located in North Carolina
- Nathaniel Greene leads the Americans
- British hold the field
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Grave under a pile of rocks
cairn
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