Spain’s Strategy
The famous three-part motto that drove Spanish conquistadors and exploration
What is "Gold, Glory, and God"?
The specific animal whose pelt became highly valuable due to European hat trends.
What is the beaver?
The name of the colony established by the Netherlands in North America.
What is New Netherland?
The total number of colonies Britain established along the Atlantic coast.
What is 13?
The century when European nations raced across the Atlantic Ocean
What is the 1600s?
The geographic regions of North America where Spain focused its empire.
What is the south and southwest?
The main economic focus for the French and Dutch in North America.
What is the fur trade?
The main settlement of New Netherland surrendered to the British in 1664.
What is New Amsterdam?
The group type British companies sent across the ocean to live permanently.
What are entire families?
What Britain used to force the Dutch to surrender New Amsterdam.
What are warships?
Church settlements built by Spanish priests to convert Native Americans to Catholicism.
What are missions?
What Native Americans possessed that made them essential to French traders.
What is wilderness knowledge?
The style of relationship the Dutch focused on with Native Americans.
What are business partnerships?
A major cash crop grown by British settlers.
What is tobacco?
The fertile land region British and French colonists fought over.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
The two primary places where Spain forced Native Americans into hard labor.
What are plantations and mines?
Where French traders often lived to build relationships with indigenous groups.
What are native villages?
What New Netherland physically split in two on the map.
What are British colonies?
How British settlers viewed Native Americans who were on the land.
What are obstacles?
The major war sparked by disputes in the Ohio River Valley.
What is the French and Indian War?
The type of society Spain created by permanently staying and converting native populations
What is a blended society?
How France and the Dutch viewed indigenous groups compared to other nations.
What are business partners?
The new name Great Britain gave to New Netherland.
What is New York?
The direct result of British settlers pushing tribes off their lands.
What are violent wars?
What happened to France in North America after losing the war.
What is forced off the continent?