This is the reason England wanted to start a colony in North America.
What is England wanted a colony to compete with their rival, Spain?
100
This is how contact with the Spaniards harmed Native Americans.
What is the Spaniards passed European diseases to the Native Americans which caused many to die?
100
As in Jamestown, the English colony, life in the Dutch colony of England was based on this.
What is commerce?
100
These are people chosen by voters to speak and act for them.
What are representatives?
100
The Pilgrims promised to do this in the Mayflower Compact.
What is work together to make "just and equal laws"?
200
This describes the role of religion in the lives of the Pilgrims and the Puritans.
What is religion was important to both groups? (Religion was a central part of their lives.)
200
This was the location of Spanish missions in New Spain.
What were the northern regions of New Spain?
200
This summarizes the English, French, and Dutch colonial histories in North America.
What is economic motives were important to all three groups even though each group had different reasons for starting their colonies?
200
This is a person who goes on a religious journey.
What is a Pilgrim?
200
The Wampanoag people helped this group because they protected them from their Native American foes (enemies).
Who are the Pilgrims?
300
This colony was almost surrounded by water which was mostly unclean. Mosquitos breeding near the water carried diseases.
What is the Jamestown Colony?
300
This is why Spanish settlements spread in North America.
What is Spanish missionaries set up villages called missions in North America?
300
Both of these groups traded with some Native Americans, but both groups of colonists also came into conflict with other Native Americans.
Who are the French and the Dutch?
300
This was a grant from the Spanish government giving settlers the right to control local Native Americans.
What is encomienda?
300
True or False. The Pilgrims cooperated with the Native Americans and both groups benefited. The Puritans tried to force Christianity on the Native Americans. That led to conflict between the two groups.
What is true?
400
This was a key factor in the survival and progress of the English colony at Jamestown.
What is the Virginia Company finally began to earn profits when John Rolfe started to grow a new kind of tobacco in Jamestown?
400
This is why the location of the St. Augustine settlement was important to the Spaniards.
What is the soldiers at the St. Augustine fort protected Spanish ships from pirates along their shipping route?
400
True or False. French fur traders and fishermen traded with the Native Americans in New France from the earliest days of the colony.
What is true?
400
This was a shortcut by water across North America to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
400
These people agreed to work without pay for someone else for a set time in exchange for passage to the new world.
What are indentured servants?
500
Describe the relationship between the English colonists on Roanoke Island and the local Native Americans.
What is there was probably conflict between the two groups because of a shortage of food?
500
Name an important Spanish settlement in Florida.
What is St. Augustine?
500
Both the French and the Dutch traded what with the Native Americans?
What is furs?
500
This is a long period without rain.
What is a drought?
500
These were the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.