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100
An area of land that serves as a barrier.
What is a buffer?
100
A word that means not plentiful.
What is scarce?
100
Declared New France to be a royal colony.
Who was Louis XIV?
100
A document that gives a person official approval to take a certain action.
What is a charter?
100
This colony used to be called New Amsterdam.
What is New York?
200
Stretched across what are today northern Mexico and the southern United States from Florida to California.
What are the boarderlands?
200
A large ranch.
What is a hacienda?
200
A method of transportation on shallow rivers.
What is portage?
200
Something grown for money.
What is cash crop?
200
These are people who coome to live in another country.
What are immigrants?
300
A fort.
What is a presidio?
300
A self-supporting community is said to be this.
What is self-sufficient?
300
Elplored ther Mississippi River.
Who are Marquette and Joliet?
300
A place where one can go to seek shelter.
What is a refuge?
300
This is a plant from which blue dye is made.
What is indigo?
400
The oldest settlement in the United States.
What is St. Augustine?
400
These guys ran missions.
What are priests?
400
Discovered the mouth of the Mississippi.
Who was LaSalle?
400
a group of people seeking a place where they could practice their religon and keep it more pure.
What are Puritians?
400
This guy founded the colony of Georgia.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
500
Small religious communities.
What are missions?
500
The capital of New Spain.
What is Mexico City?
500
The title of a guy that owned a French colony.
What is a proprietor?
500
The first written system of government in North America.
What are fundemental orders?
500
North Carolina, South Carlonia and Georgia.
What were the three southern colonies that were formed from what was originally called Carolina.
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