WHO
Native Americans
Continent colonized by Europe
North America
For a profit ($)
Missionaries converted Native Americans to which religion
Catholic
Taking control over a land/territory from far away
Colonization
Europe
Where Pilgrims came to
Plymouth/MA
Reason for European exploration
find new trade routes (to Asia, but ended up in Americas)
Eastern Woodlands
The kidnapping and enslavement of people living in West Africa was part of the...
Triangle Trade
Colonized the east coast of North America beginning with Jamestown, VA
Great Britain
First permanent British settlement
TWO reasons for colonization were...
economic and religious
Grown and sold for a profit, usually not for food
Cash crops
Exchange of ideas and diseases across Europe and America
Columbian Exchange
Europeans that colonized what is now New York as a financial trade hub
Dutch (Netherlands)
Triangle Trade involved these three continents
Africa, Americas, Europe
Why Jamestown was founded
economic reasons (resources, wealth)
How the British financed their trips to America
Joint-stock companies
FOUR countries that colonized North America
the Dutch, the British, the Spanish, and the French
Indigenous tribe known for their Longhouse structures and form of confederal self-government
Iroquois
New Amsterdam is now
New York
Why Pilgrims came to America
Religious freedom; leave the Church of England
First form of colonial self government
Mayflower Compact
British settlements founded for religious freedom?
Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay