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Who was an Abenaki Indian who spoke English and helped the colonists?
Samoset
100
VOCABULARY -- a fleet of warships
Armada
100
What was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas?
Jamestown
100
Why did France have trouble establishing settlements in southern Louisiana?
Because of the hot climate and swampy land
100
Why were Africans brought to New Spain as slaves?
Laws had been passed outlawing enslavement of Indians
200
What do you call a colony governed by the colony's owner?
A proprietary colony
200
What did the Indians teach the French to make so they could navigate shallow rivers?
Birchbark canoes
200
Why did John White not return immediately from England with supplies for his colony? BONUS: What was the name of his colony?
No ships were available because England needed them for a war with Spain. BONUS: Roanoke
200
Where did the colonists settle after their ship was blown off course?
Plymouth
200
Why did the Pilgrims leave England? BONUS: What else were they called?
Freedom of religion BONUS: Separatists
300
VOCABULARY -- branch of government that makes laws
Legislature
300
Who was the English pirate who sailed around the world?
Francis Drake
300
VOCABULARY -- a self-sufficient estate where ranchers produce most of what they need to live
hacienda
300
What were French traders eager to get from the Indians?
Beaver fur
300
Who did Queen Elizabeth protect because they shared their wealth with the English government?
Pirates/sea dogs
400
What settlement was built by the French on the St. Lawrence River? BONUS: What did the Hurons call it?
Quebec BONUS: Kebec
400
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Agreement among the men on the Mayflower to govern themselves
400
Who made the rule that said "Anyone who does not work does not eat"? BONUS: What was the name of his settlement?
John Smith BONUS: Jamestown
400
Why did the men on the Mayflower create their own government?
They were in the new world and there was no government.
400
What did Spain establish to spread Christianity throughout its new lands?
Missions
500
Who was the Spanish colonist who fought to free Indians from slavery?
Bartolome de Las Casas
500
What was the area across what is today northern Mexico and the southern United States called in the 1600s?
The borderlands of New Spain
500
Why did Spain need a buffer zone in northern New Spain?
Spain needed to protect its colonies from those of other European countries.
500
What was the region from the Appalachians to the Rockies and the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes known as in the 1600s?
Louisiana
500
Why did the Powhatan Confederacy fight the English settlers?
The English seized their crops.
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