Reasons for Colonization
Name one of the major countries making claims to territory in the New World.
Spain, Portugal, England, France, Netherlands
Native Americans were often forced into ___________, the practice of holding people against their will and making them work without pay.
Slavery
Jamestown was a poor choice for a settlement because the land was ______________, which made it bad for farming.
swampy
This country was claiming land in what is today Canada and Northeastern United States.
France
Spain started to colonize not just for the crops that could be produced, but also to mine for _____________ and _______________.
Silver and gold
Spain set up religious settlements called ___________. These were set up to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
missions
What became the major cash crop of Jamestown?
Tobacco
Who was the founder of Quebec? He also has a large lake named for him.
Champlain
Native Americans were indigenous to North and South America. Yet, many were enslaved and treated extremely poorly. The Spanish set up missions to convert the Native Americans to what religion?
Christianity
The settlers of Virginia who founded the Jamestown settled in an area of Native American land controlled by what Native American Confederacy?
Powhatan
What was the name of the Virginia Colony's government, which was the first representative government in the English Colonies?
House of Burgesses
What country built settlements along the Hudson River, in parts of what is today New York and New Jersey?
Netherlands
Plymouth Colony was founded by the Pilgrims seeking what kind of freedom?
Religious
Name the Native American woman who helped create peace between the settlers of Jamestown and the Powhatan.
Pocahontas
Jamestown was on the brink of failure, before John Smith took control. A major rule that everyone had to follow in order to survive was; "If you don't work, you don't ______."
Eat
Fur
The countries of Europe wanted to set up colonies in the Americas for many reasons; name two.
Profit, Trade, Religion, Fame
Many fur traders from what country often lived with the Native Americans and learned their languages and ways of life?
France
Who is credited with bringing tobacco from the West Indies to Virginia and helping to create a very lucrative cash crop?
John Rolfe
New Amsterdam became what present day city?
New York