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New Spain
New France
The English in the Americas
The Jamestown Colony
The Plymouth Colony
100
This is the reason why many Spanish colonists came to America.
What is gold?
100
This is the reason that most of the French colonists moved to America.
What is to make money through the fur trade?
100
These are the reasons that many English colonists came to the Americas.
What are for gold, to set up trading posts, because of good fishing, or for religious freedom?
100
Jamestown experienced prosperity, or economic success, because of __________________________.
What is tobacco?
100
A _________________________ is a person who makes a journey for a religious reasons.
Who is a pilgrim?
200
These are the areas that the Spanish colonists settled.
What are Mexico and the Southwest US?
200
These are the areas that the French settled.
What are Canada, the northern US, and the Mississippi River Valley (or Louisiana)?
200
This is the area that the English settled in North America.
What is the Atlantic coast?
200
A __________________________________ is a crop that people raise to sell rather than to use themselves.
What is a cash crop?
200
Private ownership of land caused colonists to ___________________________ in the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies.
What is work harder?
300
To spread Christianity throughout its lands, Spain established __________________________________.
What are missions?
300
______________________________________ was the explorer who explored the Mississippi River and claimed Louisiana for France.
Who is Rene-Robert Cavelier or Sir La Salle?
300
____________________________________ was an English pirate or seadog who led a crew in sailing around the world.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
300
A ___________________________________ is the branch of a government that makes laws?
What is legislature?
300
The Mayflower Compact was __________________________________.
What is an agreement that the colonists in the Plymouth Colony signed in which they agreed to create and honor just laws?
400
Spain needed to establish a buffer zone in northern New Spain because__________________________.
What is they needed to protect their land?
400
This region was called Louisiana in the 1600s?
What is the Mississippi River Valley?
400
Queen Elizabeth asked the sea dogs to _______________________________ because ______________________________________.
What is she asked them to attack Spanish ships and steal their treasures because the seadogs would share the treasure with the government?
400
Three hardships that the colonists at Jamestown faced are _________________________________.
What are starvation, diseases, bad water, and war?
400
Two reasons why the Plymouth Colony prospered are _____________________________.
What are they had strong leadership; they fished, farmed, and traded furs; they eventually allowed them to have private ownership of land; they had help from the Native Americans?
500
The colonists in New Spain were able to be self-sufficient because ________________________________.
What is they grew their own crops and made most of what they needed to live?
500
There are two reasons why some Native American groups fought with the colonists.
What are they stole their land, and they stole their crops?
500
The story of the lost colony is that ___________________________________________________________________.
What is Sir Walter Raleigh set up a colony in American, returned to England to get supplies, came back 3 years later, and the colonists were gone?
500
The location of Jamestown was a poor choice because _____________________________.
What is the land was wet, had disease-carrying mosquitoes, and had bad water?
500
The relationship between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans in later years was _______________________.
What is negative?