Vocabulary
Spanish Colonies in the Americas
English Colonies in Virginia
Pilgrims and Puritans in New England
The English and Dutch in North America
100
a long period without rain
What is a drought?
100
New Spain was rich in gold. These people did most of the hard mining work.
Who are the Native Americans?
100
the cash crop that saved Jamestown
What is tobacco?
100
This was the reason why the Pilgrims and Puritans came to North America.
What is they wanted to practice their own religions?
100
Jacques Cartier was looking for this in Canada.
What is the Northwest Passage?
200
a ruler
What is a monarch?
200
This was the reason Spanish monarchs wanted to settle the Americas.
What is they saw an opportunity to gain great wealth and power.
200
The reason England wanted to start a colony in North America.
What is England wanted North American colonies like its bitter rival Spain.
200
True or False: Pilgrims cooperated with the Native Americans and both groups benefited.
What is True?
200
The economy in New Netherland was based on this.
What is commerce?
300
a crop raised for sale, not for use by the people who farm it
What is a cash crop?
300
Spanish contact harmed Native Americans in this way.
What is the Spaniards passed European diseases to the Native Americans. As a result, many Native Americans died.
300
This was a key factor in the survival and progress of Jamestown.
What is the Virginia company began earning profits after John Rolfe started to grow a new type of tobacco in Jamestown.
300
True or False: The Puritans tried to force Christianity on the Native Americans. This led to conflict.
What is True?
300
This was the relationship between the Native Americans and the French.
What is some French people traded with Native Americans, but there was a lot of conflict between the French and the Iroquois?
400
a person who goes on a religious journey
What is a pilgrim?
400
Native Americans along with enslaved Africans ranked lowest in this.
What is class structure?
400
This legislative body was made up of representatives that made laws and decisions for Jamestown.
What is the House of Burgesses?
400
This was the name of the Native American that helped the Pilgrims.
Who is Squanto?
400
This was the relationship between the Native Americans and the Dutch.
What is settlers in the northern part of New Netherland traded with Native Americans while settlers in the south fought with Native Americans over land.
500
a mythical shortcut by water across North America to Asia
What is the Northwest Passage?
500
This was the role of the encomienda in Spanish settlements.
What is the Spanish government gave settlers the right to control Native Americans. Spanish settlers viewed the Native Americans as a source of labor. They forced them to work and many died.
500
This was what the relationship between the colonists on Roanoke Island and the Native Americans was like.
What is there was probably conflict between them because of a lack of food.
500
This is how the Pilgrims and the Puritans felt about education.
What is young pilgrims did not have to attend school; they were expected to work. Puritans believed strongly in education.
500
This is how the Native Americans and the colonists in North America each viewed land.
What is the colonists claimed land and thought it was private property. The Native Americans did not believe anyone owned land.