Chapter 4-Building the First Colonies

Spanish Colonies

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What is a colony?

A land that is ruled by another country.

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What is Spain?

This is the nation that started colonies in the Americas first.

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What are missions?

This is what Spain started in the borderlands of New Spain to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.

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This is how Spain protected its new settlements, called Borderlands, in what is now the United States. (Give at least two ways)

Answers will vary. The king chose leaders to govern each new settlement. The king sent missionaries to convert Native Americans to Christians. The missionaries built religious settlements called missions.

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This was the location of the Spanish Colonies and their primary economy. (2 answers-location and economy)

What is Central America and southern North America and what is mostly gold and silver mining?

The Virginia Colony

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What is an expedition?

A trip was taken with the goal of exploring.

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What is Jamestown?

This is England's first permanent settlement in North America

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Who is Squanto or Tisquantum?

He is responsible for teaching the Pilgrims how to farm and fish in their new home of New England.

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This is the reason that Jamestown was a poor choice for a settlement.

What is the land was swampy and not good for farming?

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These are the Native American wars that mainly the English settlers fought.

What are the Powhatan Wars?

The Plymouth Colony

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What is being able to follow their own religious beliefs?

This is why the Pilgrims made the journey to North America.

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Who is William Bradford?

This is who became the governor of the Plymouth Colony.

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Why would the Pilgrims build their settlement on a bay?

This location provided the pilgrim's easy access to shipping and trade.

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This is an example of cooperation and an example of conflict between early European colonists and Native Americans.

Answers will vary. Cooperation: What is Tisquantum taught the Pilgrims how to grow corn; Pocahontas helped two groups live in peace Conflict: Powhatan Wars; Europeans took over Native American lands

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This is the location and economy of the English Colonies in North America.

What is Atlantic Coast of North America and farming, fishing, and trading?

The French and the Dutch

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What are Quebec and Montreal?

In the 1600s, the French built only these two main settlements in all of North America.

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These are the two present-day states where the Dutch chose to establish "New Netherlands".What are New York and New Jersey?

These are the two present-day states where the Dutch chose to establish "New Netherlands".

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What is the Mississippi River valley?

La Salle was responsible for claiming what waterway for France in 1687.

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This is why the French did not build many long-lasting settlements in North America.

What is the traders spent much of their time trapping and hunting?

500

These are a few things that John law tried in an attempt to build up New Orleans.

Answers may vary. Answers include started a company to build plantations and towns, built levees to protect the town from floodwaters, brought in thousands of new settlers.

Miscellaneous

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What is a pilgrim?

This is a person who makes a journey for religious reasons

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Who was Barolome' de Las Casas?

This was a landowner who later became a priest. He freed his enslaved workers and spoke out in favor of better treatment of Native Americans.

300

Answers may vary. Should include: What are farming, ranching, fishing, fur trading, shipping goods, and other raw materials

These are the activities that made up the early colonial economies. (List at least 4)

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This is the chronological order in which these events occurred. 1. Jamestown. 2. St. Augustine. 3. Quebec. 4. Plymouth. 5. New Amsterdam.

What is #2, #1, #3, #4, #5?

500

This was the importance of the House of Burgesses.

Answers will vary. May include: The House of Burgesses helped make laws that were needed to keep order. It was also the first representative assembly in the English colonies. It allowed some of the Virginia colonist to elect members to the House of Burgesses who would represent them.