The Spanish Colonies
The Virginia Colony
The Plymouth Colony
The French and the Dutch
People and Places
100
A small Spanish fort.
What is a presidio?
100
Legends say that this person saved John Smith's life.
Who is Pocahontas?
100
This is the place where the Mayflower landed.
Where is Cape Cod?
100
This person set out to find the Mississippi River.
Who is Louis Joliet?
100
A landowner that freed slaves and became a priest.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
200
The practice of holding people against their will and making them carry out orders.
What is slavery?
200
These people usually worked for four to seven years.
Who are indentured servants?
200
They left England in 1620 on a ship called the Mayflower.
Who are the Pilgrims?
200
In 1682, he led an expedition that traveled south from the Illinois River.
Who is Rene Robert Cavelier?
200
He led a group of settlers that had arrived at Roanoke Island in 1587.
Who is John White?
300
Most of the missions lay on this area of land.
What is the west coast of the United States?
300
This is the term for a law making branch of government.
What is a legislature?
300
In Spring, the survivors got a very welcome surprise from this Abenalei Indian.
Who is Samoset?
300
Approximately this many colonists lived in New France in the year of 1763
What is 80,000?
300
He and 1,500 soldiers sailed from Spain.
Who is Pedro Menendez de Aviles?
400
Spain's main aim in settling the borderlands.
What is to protect it's empire?
400
This person encouraged her sea captains to attack Spanish treasure ships.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
400
A system of government in which people make their own laws.
What is self-government?
400
This is what the French merchants wanted.
What is the wealth that came from the fur trade?
400
This person was one of the first Europeans to work to improve the treatment of the American Indians.
Who is Bartome de las Casas?
500
This person sailed from Spain to what is now St. Augustine, Florida.
Who is Pedro Menendez de Aviles?
500
A share of ownership.
What is a stock?
500
This person banned the Catholic Church in England and replaced it with the Church of England.
Who is King Henry VIII?
500
By 1626, this person was the governor of New Netherland.
Who is Peter Minuit?
500
The head of the executive branch of state government.
What is the governor?
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