Stargazing
What's the other name for the North Star?
Polaris
What was the name of the city that became the capital of the Spanish colonies in New Mexico, and still exists today?
Santa Fe
What was the name of the first permanent English colony established in North America?
Jamestown
What was the name of the ship that brought the pilgrims from England to Plymouth in 1620?
The Mayflower
What resource were the French most interested in collecting from North America?
fur
How many official regions of the sky have been identified by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)?
88
In the early 1600s Spanish colonists built settlements and enslaved Native Americans and forced them to convert to Christianity. What were these settlements called?
missions
What happened to the Roanoke Colony?
We don't know! They disappeared under mysterious circumstances, but probably died due to disease or starvation, or they may have joined local tribes.
Explain majority rule.
If more than half of the people agreed to a law or a decision, everyone had to follow it.
Sieur de la Salle was looking for the mouth of which river?
a) The Mississippi b) The Pecos c) The Atlantic d) Arches National Park
a) The Mississippi
Name three different animals that people have identified as constellations in the night sky?
Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (The Great Bear, The Little Bear), Cygnus (The Swan), Canis Major (The Great Dog), Cancer (The Crab)
What was Spain's main goal in settling the borderlands?
To protect it's empire by gaining wealth and power often through the exploitation and enslavement of Native Americans
What did Pocahontas do to help the settlers of Jamestown and the Powhatan tribe?
Pocahontas helped bring about a time of peace by convincing the settlers and the people to stop fighting. She saved John Smith from dying, and married John Rolfe.
Where was the Mayflower supposed originally supposed to land? Where did it actually land?
Why did Samuel de Champlain build his colony beside a wide river instead of farther inland?
Because the river made it easy for the French to travel, trade furs, and form alliances with Native peoples.
Which of the following constellations is a person from Greek mythology?
a) Neptune b) Pegasus c) owl bear d) Polaris
b) Pegasus
Life in the Spanish borderlands mixed many cultures. What three groups of people influenced daily life in places like New Mexico and Florida?
Spanish, Indigenous (Native American), and African peoples.
What cash crop, a crop that people grew to sell, became very important to the success of Jamestown?
tobacco
Who was Tisquantum (Squanto) and Samoset and how did they help the pilgrims?
Samoset and Squanto taught the pilgrims survival skills North America that the English had never learned before, such as fishing and farming.
French explorers Marquette and Joliet paddled down a giant river in 1673. What were they hoping to find, and what did they actually discover instead?
They were hoping to find a water route to Asia, but instead they explored the Mississippi River and learned it flowed south to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the name of the asterism within Ursa Major?
The Big Dipper
Why did Spain build missions and presidios throughout the borderlands instead of just one big city?
To spread their religion, protect their empire, and control the land by placing small settlements across a wide area.
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An agreement that the pilgrims made to govern themselves with fair laws, and use majority rule.
The French wanted their colonies to grow along the Mississippi River. What city did they build near its mouth?
New Orleans. Because its location near the river’s mouth made it a powerful port for trade and travel throughout North America.