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EQ:HowdidtheAgeofExplora:onleadtothecoloniza:onofNorthCarolina?

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hHps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0CDJZu4M5IColumbus:

- Discovers the New World - Finds gold and resources

- Meets the Native Americans

- Relationship and Interaction with Natives

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CauseandEffectsofColumbus’Expedi:ontotheNewWorld

Cause: 1.  Christopher Columbus

lands in the Bahamas in October of 1492

2. Spain leads more expeditions to the New

World searching for land and gold

3.  Spain begins to colonize Central and South

America

Effects: 1. Encounters Native Americans

2. Finds gold and resources 3. Unknowingly brings diseases 4. Begins the Columbian Trade

1. Pizarro and Cortez pillage the Inca and Aztec Empires for their silver and gold 2. Disease and warfare begin to diminish

the numbers of Native Americans 3. Other Spanish explorers begin exploring

North America

1. Both the Spanish and Natives begin a relationship to benefit one another: trade,

farming weapons 2. Spain’s northern neighbor, England,

begins to send expeditions to settle North America

SpanishExplorersinNC•  ThefirstknownEuropeanexplorertoexplorethecoastofNCwas

navigatorGiovannidaVerrazanoin1524.HewasinsearchofaroutetotheOrientandinsearchofriches.

•  DuringAfouryearexpedi:onthatbeganin1539,Hernando

DeSotoexploredmuchofwhatisnowthesoutheasternUnitedStates,includingNorthCarolina.HewasinsearchofgoldandAdesiretoconvertthena:vestoChris:anity.HefoundveryliHlegold,butle^atraildiseaseandslaughteramongtheNa:veAmericans.

•  In1566,Capt.JuanPardobegananexpedi:onwhereheexploredthemountainsofNorthCarolinaandTennessee.HeestablishedFortSanJuannearpresentdayMorganton,NC.

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EnglandJoinstheRace•  AsSpaincon:nuedtofind

goldandresourcesintheNewWorld,EnglandwantedtojointheracetoclaimlandinAmerica

•  QueenElizabethIgranted

aCHARTER(acontract)toSirGilbertHumphreytogoexploreandclaimlandinthenameofEngland

1stExpedi:onofNC•  Readthear:cle“AmadasandBarloweExpedi:on”Whowentandwhatweretheirroles? 1.

2.3.4.5.

Whatwasthepurposeoftheexpedi:on?

Wheredidtheexpedi:onland?

HowdidtheyinteractwiththeNa:veAmericans?

Whatwastheimpactofthisexpedi:on?

EnglishExplora:onofNC•  A^erthedeathofSirHumphreyin1583,SirWalterRaleigh

spearheadedEngland’scoloniza:onmovement.•  In1584,PhillipAmadasandArthurBarloweexploredthecoastof

NC.•  In1585,RalphLanecommandedthefirstcolonyonRoanoke

Island.ThiscolonyprovedtobeafailurebutthecolonistreturnedtoEnglandin1586withawealthofknowledgeaboutthenewland.

•  In1587,EnglandonceagainestablishedacolonyonRoanokeIsland.ThisColonywasledbyJohnWhite.Itbecameknownasthe“LostColony”.