Vocabulary
A crop that a farmer raises for sale.
What is a cash crop?
Why did Spanish settlements spread in North America?
Spanish missionaries set up villages called missions.
What was the relationship like between the Native Americans and the Dutch?
Some Dutch settlers married Native American women?
What did the Pilgrims write that promised to work together to make just and equal laws?
Someone who works for a set amount of time
What is an indentured servant?
A person who goes on a religious journey
What is a pilgrim?
How did the contact with Spaniards harm Native Americans?
Spaniards passed European diseases to the Native Americans. As a result, many died.
What did the French explorers trade with Native Americans?
Land is owned and can be bought or sold.
John Wolfe married this person which helped create peace amongst the colonists and the Powhatans?
Who was Pocahontas?
A grant from the Spanish government giving settlers the right to control local Native Americans?
What is an encomienda?
What was a location of Spanish missions in New Spain?
The southern regions of New Spain
What was an example of conflict between the French and the Native Americans?
Iroquois did not like that the French were taking their land
How did Native Americans view land ownership?
Land is shared and cared for by everyone in the community.
Who brought over tobacco?
John Rolfe
A shortcut by water across North America to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The location of St. Augustine settlement was important to the Spainards because
The shipping route that Spanish ships used to take gold and silver from the Americas to Spain passed near St. Augustine.
What was the key factor in the survival and progress of the English colony at Jamestown?
Introduction of the tobacco crop
What group of people founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
The Puritans
What group forced Christianity on the Native Americans?
The Puritans
People who are chosen by voters to speak and act for them.
What is a representative?
Why did England want to start a colony in North America?
England wanted to compete with Spain.
What was an example of cooperation between the French colonists and Native Americans?
The fur trade.
Why did the Pilgrims and Puritans come to North America?
For religious freedom
What colony was almost surrounded by water. Some of the water was unclean, and the mosquitoes that bred around the water carried disease?
Jamestown