Explorers of the PNW

Spanish Exploration

Spanish Exploration

• Agenda (Don’t start writing yet)– Get notebooks and something to write with– Open textbooks to page 120– Objective– Overview– Motivations– Explorers– Interactions with native population– Preview

• Objective– Upon completion of this lesson students should be

able to…• explain the motivations for Spanish exploration of the

PNW.• identify eight key Spanish sailors for their contributions

to PNW exploration.• describe Spanish interaction with PNW natives.

• Overview– Spain and Portugal– Spanish• Motivations• Explorers

– Dates– Contributions– Interactions with PNW natives

• Spain and Portugal (Start writing now)– Rivalry in Western Hemisphere– Pope Clement– Demarcation Line in 1494• Spanish get the bulk• Portuguese get east coast of Brazil

• First European country with interest in PNW• Motivations– Control native civilizations– Gold and silver– Northwest Passage– In one word: power

• Timeframe– 1542 - 1819

• Explorers (chronological)– Bartolome Ferrelo– Martin Aguilar– Sebastian Vizcaino– Juan Perez– Bruno de Hezeta and Juan Bodega y Quadra– Francisco Eliza and Manuel Quimper

Spanish Exploration

• Bartolome Ferrelo– 1542– Explored Oregon coast– Trying to find western

entrance to Northwest Passage

• Martin Aguilar– 1602 – 1603– Explored Cape Blanco in SW Oregon– Looking for NW Passage

• Sebastian Vizcaino– 1602 – 1603– Explored SW Oregon,

Rogue River– Looking for NW Passage

• Juan Perez– 1774– Sailed along WA and BC coast– Established Nootka Village– Made territorial claim of Queen Charlotte Islands

and Vancouver Island

• Bruno de Hezeta and Juan Bodega y Quadra– 1775– Noted large river between OR and WA– Named it San Rogue River (Columbia River now)

• Francisco Eliza and Manuel Quimper– 1790– Multiple expeditions along WA and BC coasts– Explored San Juan Islands, Strait of Juan de Fuca,

Georgia Strait

• Interactions with PNW natives– Perez (1774) landed on Vancouver Island– Did not know it was an island– Bodega y Quadra (1775) stayed among the Nuu-

chah-nulth on the island• Read his description of the natives

• Vocabulary words in Quadra document– Affable: friendly; easy to get along with– Disposition: attitude; personality– Trifles: cheap items– Solemnize: perform a ritual– Gunwale: top edge of a ship– Chattel: personal, movable property (not land)

• Preview– Monday: • Finish Spanish Exploration• Begin British Exploration