This is how Tisquantum helped the first colonies in New England...
What is fish and farm?
100
Samuel de Champlain establishes Quebec...
What is the third event?
100
This is the part of North America that La Salle claimed for France in 1684...
What is Mississippi River Valley?
200
to speak for
What is to represent?
200
a crop that people raise to sell rather than to use themselves
What is a cash crop?
200
This is what changed life for many American Indians after the arrival of the Spanish...
What are horses?
200
Pedro Menendez de Aviles establishes St. Augustine...
What is the first event?
200
This is the city where most Spanish leaders governed most of the colonies in New Spain...
What is Mexico City?
300
the political idea that the majority of an organized group should have the power to make decisions for the whole group
What is majority rule?
300
a person who makes a journey for religious reasons
What is a pilgrim?
300
These are the present-day states that the Dutch established in New Netherland...
What are New York and New Jersey?
300
The Dutch establish New Amsterdam...
What is the fifth event?
300
This is what Spain built in the borderlands of New Spain to convert the American Indians to Christianity...
What are missions?
400
a system of government in which people make their own laws
What is self government?
400
a land ruled by a distant country
What is a colony?
400
These are the jobs that the early colonists did...
What are
-fishing
-hunting
-fur trading
-shipping
-mining
400
The Virginia Company establishes Jamestown...
What is the first event?
400
This is one advantage of the Pilgrims building their settlement on a bay...
What is
-fresh water or
-easy trade or
-good land for growing crops
500
the lawmaking branch of a colony, a state government, or the national government
What is legislature?
500
the head of the executive branch of state government
What is a governor?
500
These are the hardships the Jamestown Colony had...
What are
-starving first winter
-many indians lived there and were not always friendly
-it was located on swampy land
-it was hot and humid
-there were mosquitoes and unhealthy drinking water
500
William Bradford and the Pilgrims establish Plymouth...
What is the fourth event?
500
These are the reasons why many people did not settle in New France...
What is
-enormous area of land
-too cold
-not enough jobs
-people wanted to trade rather than build a settlement