This is why the Pilgrims made the journey to North America.
What is being able to follow their own religious beliefs?
100
In the 1600s, the French built only these two main settlements in all of North America.
What are Quebec and Montreal?
100
This is a person who makes a journey for religious reasons
What is a pilgrim?
200
This is the nation that started colonies in the Americas first.
What is Spain?
200
This is England's first permanent settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
200
This is who became the governor of the Plymouth Colony.
Who is William Bradford?
200
These are the two present-day states where the Dutch chose to establish "New Netherlands".
What are New York and New Jersey?
200
This was landowner who later became a priest. He freed his enslaved workers and spoke out in favor of better treatmentof Native Americans.
Who was Barolome' de Las Casas?
300
This is what Spain started in the borderlands of New Spain to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
What are missions?
300
He is responsible for teaching the Pilgrims how to farm and fish in their new home of New England.
Who is Squanto or Tisquantum?
300
This location provided the pilgrims an easy access to shipping and trade.
Why would the Pilgrims build their settlement on a bay ?
300
La Salle was responsible for claiming what waterway for France in 1687.
What is the Mississippi River valley?
300
These are the activities that made up the early colonial economies. (List at least 4)
Answers may vary.
Should include:What are farming, ranching, fishing, fur trading, shipping goods and other raw materials
400
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.
400
This is the reason that Jamestown was a poor choice for a settlement.
What is the land was swampy and not good for farming?
400
This is an example of cooperation and an example of conflict between early European colonists and Native Americans.
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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
400
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?
400
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 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?
500
These are the Native American wars that mainly the English settlers fought.
What are the Powhatan Wars?
500
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?
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.
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.