Vocabulary
The person who rules a country or territory as a representative of the king or queen.
Who is a viceroy?
It divided North and South America between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Selling goods, find gold and silver, and to export raw materials were all goals of this company.
What was the Virginia Company?
They were the signers of the Mayflower Compact.
Who were the Pilgrims?
Was a French explorer who explored the Mississippi River Valley.
Who was Robert de La Salle?
A system granted from the Spanish government that gives Spanish settlers the right to take land and control local American Indians on that land.
What is encomienda?
Under this new system, Indians were supposed to be treated better.
What is the encomienda system?
The English settler who might have single-handedly saved the colony of Jamestown.
Who was John Rolfe?
This document promised that the Pilgrims would make decisions as a group.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
Was an Englishmen who explored for the Dutch East Indian Company.
Who was Henry Hudson?
A method of ranking people, often by race, power, or wealth.
What is a class system?
The settlement founded by Pedro Menendez de Aviles.
What is St. Augustine?
The crop that was the first cash crop the colony exported for sale in England.
What is tobacco?
They were separatists who owed service to English investors.
Who were the Pilgrims?
He made New France a royal province.
Who was King Louis XIV?
A person who is sent to another country to convince others to believe in a particular religion.
Who is a missionary?
When the Spanish arrived and attacked the French, they did not help the French. After the attack they were forced into missions by the Spanish.
Who were the Timucuan Indians?
She married John Rolfe which helped relations between the colonists and American Indians.
Who was Pocahontas?
They arrived in America after the Pilgrims and in greater numbers.
Who were the Puritans?
The Dutch government gave them the right to manage the territory.
What was the West Indian Company?
A document that gave someone the right to set up and govern colonies.
What is a royal charter?
This was Spain's settlement strategy for New Spain in the 1600s.
What was to build missions?
This colony was a failure after the people at the settlement disappeared.
What is the colony if Roanoke?
They expected everyone in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to worship as they did.
Who were the Puritans?
They continue to fight over territory in New France and New England.
Who were England and France?