Spanish Colonies in America
What did Spain call their colony in the Americas?
What is New Spain?
Who sent an exploring party to Virginia 1584?
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
Why did a group of colonists leave England?
What is to be free to practice their religion?
Why did Jacques Cartier come to North America?
What is to search for a shortcut to Asia?
Someone sent by a king or queen to rule a colony
What is a viceroy?
What rights did settlers have under the encomienda?
What is the right to demand payments or labor from American Indians?
Where did the first English settlers arrive in North America?
What is Roanoke Colony?
What group of colonists settled in Plymouth?
What is the Pilgrims?
Who claimed the region of Canada for France?
What is Giovanni da Verrazano?
Having a connection with the church of England
What is Anglican?
When was the colony of St. Augustine founded?
What is 1565?
Why did the first group of settlers at Roanoke Island return to England?
What is because they didn't have enough food?
What did the Pilgrims write to govern themselves?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What was the most important Dutch settlement?
What is New Amsterdam?
Someone who wan ted to change the Church of England and came to North America to worship freely
What is a Puritan?
Where was St. Augustine located?
What is Florida?
Who gave the Virginia Company the power to set up a colony?
What is King James I?
How did the Wampanoag people help the Pilgrims?
What is they provided food?
What was the main purpose of the colony of New Netherland?
What is fur trading?
Someone who makes a long journey, usually for religious reasons
What is a Pilgrim?
What were the Spanish missionaries trying to persuade American Indians to do?
What is to become Christian?
What was the purpose of the House of Burgesses in Jamestown?
What is to govern the colony?
Which group of colonists established the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
What is the Puritans?
Who explored the Mississippi River Valley and claimed if for France?
What is Robert de La Salle?
a document from a king or queen that gave permission to set up and govern a colony
What is a royal charter?