European explorers
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North American land settlements
100

Name the three goals of European exploration.

What is God, gold and glory

100

________crop?   a crop that is grown to be sold

What is Cash Crop?

100

._____________ Passage: an imagined river passage through North America that Europeans believed would make travel between Europe and Asia faster and more efficient

What is Northwest?

100

1718, a French explorer who founded the settlement of New Orleans in present-day Louisiana.  Louisiana has a parish named after him and it begins with a B.

who is Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville?

100


present-day location was the first permanent European settlement in North America?




What is Florida?

200

This gentleman first explored the St. Lawrence River in 1603 

Who is Champlain?

200

__________servitude: a system in which a worker agrees to work for an employer for a certain amount of time in exchange for training or payment in land or goods at the end of the agreed time period

What is indentured ?

200

a system of money

What is currency?

200

Govenor of the Plymouth colony for 30 years and came to the America on the Mayflower. (little known fact, Clint Eastwood is a decedent of this man!)

Who is William Bradford?

200

What was the first permanent English settlement in North America, established in what is now Virginia

What is Jamestown>?

300

The first European explorer to navigate and chart the Mississippi River.

Who was Hernando de Soto?

300

to require by law to leave a place

What is to banish ??

300

 a chain of islands

What is an archipelago ?

300

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300

Founded Providence Rhode Island.

Who was Roger Williams?

400

These French explorers confirmed that the Mississippi River flows southward to the Gulf and not westward to the Pacific, as was originally hoped for.

Who is Marquette and Joliet?

400

the cruel and unfair treatment of a group of people

what is persecution ?

400

reduction in quantity...less than you had.  Begins with an D.

What is depletion

400

Tribal chief of the Wampanoag Tribe, who left Squanto in Jamestown to teach the colonists to grow crops, fish and hunt.

Who is Massasoit?

400

 Who established Pennsylvania?

Who is William Penn?

500

European explorer mapped the Gulf Coast region for the first time.( Sounds like the Mexican birthday party game of hitting the object while blindfolded and candy explodes out!)

Who is Alonso Álvarez de Pineda?

500

.__________ Compact: an agreement for self-government signed by the Pilgrims

What is Mayflower?

500

a representative to the legislature in colonial Virginia and Maryland....Sounds like a hamburger!

What is burgess?

500

What native American woman helped Jamestown make peace with the Powhatans?

Who is Pocahontas?

500

Puritan settlement in North America established for religious freedom, to create a "city upon a hill" which modeled a Christian society

What is Massachusetts Bay Company?