Lesson 1
What was a class system?
A way that Spain determined your worth based on what race your parents were.
What is a representative?
A person chosen by voters to speak for the whole group.
What was the religion that people who settled in new England celebrated?
They were Puritans.
What was the main reason people from France and the Netherlands first came to North America?
They were looking for the Northwest Passage.
What religion did the Spanish force the Timucuan Indians to follow?
Christianity
What was a cash crop?
A crop that farmers raise only to sell.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
It explained how the pilgrims would govern themselves and was decided before they came over.
The ------- meant that Spanish settlers could take Indians' lands and make them work for free.
A) Monopoly
B) Encomienda
C) Missionaries
D) Puritan
B) Encomienda
What is so special about St. Augustine?
It was the first permanent European settlement in the United States.
What was an Indentured Servant?
A person who worked without pay for a set amount of time that would later be rewarded with land.
What is a pilgrim?
A person who goes on a long journey, usually for religious freedom.
Fill in the blank... The company of new France had a --------- so no one else could buy or sell furs.
A) Monopoly
B) Encomienda
C) Missionaries
D) Puritan
A) Monopoly
What was the class everyone wanted to be apart of in new Spain's class system.
Peninsular
What problems did people who lived at Jamestown face?
They ran out of food during the first winter. The Native Americans in the area did not like them and killed them if they stepped off their property. 400 of the 500 died the first winter there.
True or False: The pilgrims got along with the Native Americans in the area.
True
________ governed and tried to convert Native Americans to Catholicism in new Spain.
A) Monopoly
B) Encomienda
C) Missionaries
D) Puritan
C) Missionaries
What is a missionary?
A person sent to another country to convince other to believe in their religion.
We learned about the lost colony of Roanoke, what Island do they think these people tried to go to?
Croatoan
Look at the graph on page 111, what are some logical ways that the population grew so much in 9 years.
They could have had some kids and also other people could have moved there.
John Winthrop was a ______ because he wanted to change the Church of England.
A) Monopoly
B) Encomienda
C) Missionaries
D) Puritan
D) Puritan