Spain created St. Augustine, the oldest city in North America, for what primary purpose?
What is to defend against French pirates looting their treasure ships
100
France claimed the lands bordering the Gulf of St. Lawrence thanks to this explorer?
What is Jacques Cartier
100
This crop became a staple of the Jamestown colony and was a key ingredient to its survival?
What is Tobacco
100
This religious group sailed to America aboard the Mayflower and felt separation from the corrupt Church of England was necessary?
What is the Pilgrims
100
This conflict was a led by a Wampanoag Indian chief and devastated one-fifth of Puritan towns and killed 1,000 settlers?
What is Metacom's (or King Phillip's) War
200
The primary sect of Catholic friars who converted or bullied Natives for the Spanish were called what?
What is Franciscan Friars
200
The first permanent French colony came in 1608 when this man founded Quebec?
What is Samuel de Champlain
200
What factors most directly led to problems in the early Jamestown colony?
What is unfriendly relations with Indians, swampy geography, unwillingness to plant crops
200
The Puritan exodus from England to the New World was led by this man who hoped to build "a city upon a hill"
What is John Winthrop
200
This trading business devastated the Indians because it caused warfare to secure the product?
What is the Fur Trade
300
In this carefully coordinated rebellion in 1680, an Indian shaman and his followers killed more than 400 Spaniards to cast them out
What is Pope's Rebellion
300
Lacking Settlers for their new colony, the French created this vast trading network which made them a lot of money?
What is Fur Trade
300
King Charles I granted Lord Baltimore this colony in the New World, which would serve as a refuge for Catholics?
What is Maryland
300
Massachusetts Colony was founded by this, a collection of investors who bought shares in the colony?
What is Joint-Stock Company
400
In the 1540's the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Coranado searched in vain for this legendary city of gold?
What is Cibola
400
They were the best Catholic missionaries because they came to understand and respect the ways of Indians?
What is Jesuits
400
this conflict in the Chesapeake in the 1670's was fought because of class conflict and had roots in Indian policy, taxes and the taking away of voting rights for landless white men?
What is Bacon's Rebellion
400
These two religious dissenters were exiled from Puritan Massachusetts and eventually relocated to nearby Rhode Island?
What is Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
500
This Spanish conquistador cut a bloody swath across northern Alabama and Florida searching in vain for gold?
What is Hernan de Soto
500
New Netherland survived as a fur-trading colony for this mother nation?
What is the Dutch
500
This Jamestown governor was corrupt and took away the right to vote from landless Virginians, which helped led to a major conflict?
What is William Berkeley
500
Puritans actively rejected the old feudal system of Europe and instead founded this type of society, dominated by middle-class farmers?