VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY
THE SPANISH
THE FRENCH
THE BRITISH
100
Large estates built by wealthy Spanish ranchers
What are haciendas
100
Stream or river that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
100
To prevent the French and English fron getting territory.
What is the reason Spain wanted a colony in Florida?
100
Reason New Orleans became a major city.
What is its location at the mouth of the Mississippi River?
100
Reason the British were able to win the French and Indian War.
What is help from more British soldiers?
200
Military fort built by the Spanish
What is a presidio?
200
War in the 1670s between Native Americans and English in New England
What is King Phillip's War?
200
The goals of Pedro Menendez in Florida.
What are taking control of Florida, finding the French, and defeating them?
200
The French and Native Americans helped each other.
What are trading goods and teaching the French skills?
200
The country the Native Americans lost their land to after the French and Indian War.
What is the British?
300
Spanish for "the Royal Road"
What is El Camino Real
300
The rugged stretch of land near the Applachian Mountains.
What is the backcountry?
300
The natural resource the Spanish found in New Mexico.
What is grassland?
300
The reason the French wanted to explore the Mississippi River.
What is to build more trading posts and discover new lands?
300
Reason settlers along the coast wanted to move west.
What is expensive land along the coast and free land in the backcountry?
400
Native American Revolt which threw the Spanish out of Mexico.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
400
War fought by the British against the French and Native American Allies
What is The French and Indian War?
400
The reason the Pueblo revolted.
What is mistreatment by the Spanish?
400
Land La Salle claimed for France
What is the Mississippi River Valley?
400
Law enacted to keep settlers from moving west of the Applachian Mountains?
What is Proclamation of 1763?
500
Place in colonial North America where settlers and Indians traded goods
What is a trading post?
500
Native American rebellion led by an Ottawa leader in 1763
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
500
Areas Spain moved into after New Mexico.
What is Texas and Arizona?
500
Taught the French to make birch bark canoes
Who are the Native Americans?
500
Indian leader the British fought in New England.
Who was Metacom?
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