Push/Pull Factors
People in (North) America
Geography
Life in America
100

The Virginia Company came into Jamestown for what?

To find gold (make the crown richer).

100

What organization sponsored the English to move and settle first into the New World?

Virginia Company (later contact Charter bought by the King for longterm settlement).

100

Tenochtilan was the ancient city located in modern day:

Mexico City

100

French trappers learned of and received beaver pelts from local natives HOW:

Trading primitive steel supplies with them.
200

The Spanish came into the modern day Mexico (N and S America) for which factor?

Pull

200

This group contracted for years of service to the Company for a passage into the Colonies

Indentured Servants (white)

200

French explorers settled in this regional area of modern day Canada:

St. Lawrence River, modern day Quebec.


200

Spanish created townships across the empire with what as the main focus:

The Church/Catholic Church as center influence.

300
The motivation for Spain to come into the New World was what?

Spread culture, find gold, expand empire (all 3 G's)

300

This group eventually made it into Jamestown to perform laborious work farming tobacco.

African Slaves.

300
Jamestown was specifically chosen for the following reasons (name 2)
Waterways protected against natives, transport/ports made it easily accessible for ships, ease of navigating into the interior of Virginia.
300

Based on the encomienda system, which was was the lowest of the 'Spanish bloodline'.

Mestizos- intermarried Spaniards (to a Native parent).

400
French came into what we can Canada now for what reason?

To explore initially, then utilize beavers to make hats and sell in France (make money, pull factor)

400

Bartolome de Las Casas famously did this to the Spanish Empire/Catholic Church:

'Rebuked' (condemned) them for a not so peaceful conquering of the Spanish empire (saying death count in the millions).

400

New England could not farm large scale due to which factor:

Mountainous terrain with rocky soil (difficult to grow certain crops).
400

He was the King who eventually purchased the Charter from Virginia Company, effectively spreading England into North America

King James (Virginia names after 'Virgin Queen' Mary).
500

The French religious group the Huguenots moved into America (Northern US as we know it) later in 1700s for what reason?

Catholic Church outlawed their 'protestant' religion (push factor).

500
Women into the American colonies arrived to Virginia these ways: (name 2) 

Chose to travel in lieu of prison, arranged marriages to the colonists (tobacco brides), stowaways, kidnapping.

500

Spanish Empire stretched into which SOUTHERN modern day state/territory?

Florida.

500

Slaves outside of the 13 Colonies region worked on harsh sugar plantations in which regions:

modern day Brazil and Caribbean Islands (not unique labor to the colonies)