Spanish Colonies
The practice of holding people against their will and making them work without pay is known as....?
What is Slavery.
What is a resource that can be used to make a product?
What is a raw material.
Jamestown might have failed without the leadership of this man that made up a rule---anyone who did not work did not eat.
Who is John Smith.
What is the name of a crop people grow to make money called?
What is a cash crop.
What was the name of the ship that the Pilgrims sailed over on?
What is the Mayflower.
Name of the King of France that Louisiana was named after?
What is Louis XIV.
New Amsterdam is where this largest city of the United States is today?
What is New York City.
What is the capital of New Spain?
What is Mexico City.
What word was found on a tree when no one was found at Roanoke?
What is Croatoan.
What was the name of Chief Powhatan's daughter that helped bring peace for a short time between the Native's and the English?
Who is Pocahontas.
People who agreed to work without pay for a length of 4 to 7 years for their voyage to America where known as ....?
What are indentured servants.
What is Massachusetts.
What is "Father of Waters."
New Amsterdam had the Hudson River on one side of it and this river on the other side of it?
What were the religious settlements built by missionaries called?
What are missions.
Who was the leader that left Roanoke to get more supplies but found no one there when he returned?
Who is John White.
How many colonists sailed aboard the 3 ships sent by the Virginia Company to settle Jamestown. Half of them died during the first winter.
What is 105.
Who was the man who brought tobacco plants from the West Indies to the colony of Virginia and also married Pocahontas?
Who is John Rolfe.
These two Native Americans helped the Pilgrims to survive their first winter and showed them where to fish and hunt in their new home.
Who are Samoset and Squanto.
The Mississippi was explored by a group of French in 1673. The leaders of the expedition were this fur trader, along with this Catholic misssionary?
Who are Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette.
Name the 3 present day states that made up New Sweden?
What is Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
He was a landowner who later became a priest and freed his enslaved workers and spoke out in favor of better treatment of Native Americans.
Who was Bartolome de Las Casas
Roanoke Island can be found in this present day state today?
What is North Carolina.
Who was the king of England who was okay with the Virginia Company sending 3 ships to settle this new land.
Virginia had over 1000 people, so they decided to set up this law making legislative branch of government?
What is The House of Burgesses.
Name the Native American tribe that befriended the Pilgrims and helped celebrate the First Thanksgiving with them?
Who are the Wampanoag?
Rene Robert Cavelier, known as Sieur de la Salle, set out to find the mouth of the Mississippi. During this difficult trip they ran out of food, living only on this vegetable and this animal?
What are potatoes and alligator.
In 1626, the Dutch began laying out a town on the south end of this island?
What is Manhattan.
Large homes or estates some of the settlers built in the borderlands and were they often raised cattle and sheep.
What are haciendas.
Queen Elizabeth I chose this man to set up a colony in North America.
Who is Sir Walter Raliegh.
What was the name of bay that the settlers sailed up and set up the colony of Jamestown?
What are the Powhatan Wars.
What are Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
This Scottish banker became Louisiana's owner and started a company to build plantations and towns.
Who is John Law.
In 1626, Peter Minuit held this position on New Netherland. It's the same position Gianforte holds for the state of Montana today?