Vocab
The _______________ left England to find religious freedom and settled in Plymouth.
Pilgrims
What was the first permanent European settlement in the Americas?
St Augustine
Tobacco was an important _________________ grown in the southern colonies to make money.
cash crop
What do we call someone who wanted to change the Church of England and came to North America to worship freely?
A Puritan
Explorers searched for the _____________________, a water route through North America to Asia.
Northwest Passage
What is a class system?
A rigid system where people were classified by the race of their parents
What was the main reason Spain sent priests, settlers, and soilders to New Spain?
For more land and resources
What is a royal province?
An area controlled and governed by a king or queen
What is the Mayflower Compact?
An agreement made by the Pilgrims to govern themselves
What was the main resource that colonists in New France nd New Netherlands traded?
Fur
When one company controls all trade of a product, it has a ________________.
Monopoly
A ______________ traveled to the Americas to spread Christianity to Native Americans.
Missionary
What do we call the time when food supplies ran out during winter and the colonists couldn't hunt?
The Starving Time
The Thanksgiving Feast
Where did the Dutch West India Company build their trading post?
Manhattan
The _________________ system allowed Spanish settlers to force Native Americans to work for them.
Encomienda
Where was New Spain located? You can write it or draw a map
Mexico, Texas, Florida
An _______________________ agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for passage to America.
Indentured Servant
What company received a charter to settle in New England?
Massachusetts Bay Company
Where was New Netherlands located?
write or draw a map
Hudson River
The Spanish king sent a ________________ to rule the colony in his place.
Viceroy
Order the classes of New Spain from higest to lowest:
Mestizo, Native Americans, Crillo, Peninsular
Peninsular
Crillo
Mestizo
Native Americans
Daily Double:
The _____________________ was the first elected assembly in the American colonies.
House of Burgesses
A ______________ was a document from the king that gave permission to start a colony.
Royal Charter
Where was New France located?
write or draw a map
Mississippi River and Canada