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Colonies
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100

Country that explored Florida, Southwest United States and Mexico

What is Spain?

100

Type of agreement where two people create a partnership in order to gain a profit

What is a Joint Venture?

100

Ocean that explorers had to cross to get to North America

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

100

This Colony was established based on wealth

What is Jamestown?

100

We are currently studying this Era in our countries history

What is the Colonial Era?

200

Country that people were fleeing because of religious intolerance

What is England?

200

You need one of these in order to get permission to explore

What is a charter?

200

This body of water lies off the West coast of North America

What is the Pacific Ocean?

200

This colony was established based on Religious Freedom

What is Plymouth?

200

This was the name given to the widespread transfer of plants, animals and all raw materials from the new world in the West to the old world in the East

What is the Columbian Exchange?

300

Country that made friends with the Indians in order to learn from them and build their wealth on the Fur Trade 

What is France?

300

This means competition for raw materials

What is Mercantilism?

300

This state is due North and shares a border with Texas

What is Oklahoma?

300

Jamestown was saved from certain death by this explorer

Who is John Rolfe?

300

Claiming new territory was a way for countries to build this

What is their Empires?

400

Country that established the first colony in North America

What is England?

400

The Virginia Company was played a major role in helping to establish this colony

What is Jamestown?

400

This state is due West and shares a border with Texas

What is New Mexico?

400

This group of sectarians landed on the shore of what is now Massachusetts

Who are the Pilgrims?

400

This mountain range lies west of the new English colonies

What are the Appalachian Mountains?

500

Country that Christopher Columbus was from and got permission from the king to explore the new world

What is Spain?

500

It happened in 1607

What is the founding of Jamestown?

500

Texas shares a border with this country to our South

What is Mexico?

500

The Plymouth Colony was established in this year

What is 1620?

500

This river divides our country in half and the French used it to trade with Native Americans

What is the Mississippi River?