Spanish Colonization and New Spain
A Spanish word for conqueror.
What is conquistador?
This waterway to Asia was greatly sought-after by European countries.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This was an agreement for the ruling of the Plymouth Colony, signed on by the Pilgrims.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
The colonies in this region were called the Breadbasket colonies for the cash crops they grew, including rye, barley, and wheat.
What were the Middle/Mid-Atlantic Colonies?
These were the ships that brought Christopher Columbus and his crew to America.
What were the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
The name for the towns in Spanish settlements.
What are pueblos?
England established this type of government in Virginia, in which voters elect representatives to make laws.
What is a representative government?
This court was designed to solve problems in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What was the General Court?
New Jersey was originally established by the Duke of York as this type of colony, although it later became a royal colony due to financial issues.
What is a proprietary colony?
This was the first successful English settlement in the Americas.
What was Jamestown?
Soldiers in New Spain lived in forts with these thick, high walls.
What were presidios?
This term describes a representative to colonial Virginia government that made up the House of Burgesses.
Who were Burgesses?
This religious group wanted to simplify the worship of the Church of England by eliminating practices of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who are Puritans?
This religious group was made up of Protestant reformers who fled persecution in England, believing in peace and equality of all people.
Who were the Quakers?
This country made their fortune in the Americas off fishing, trapping, and trading.
What is France?
The Spanish conquistadors conquered in the Americas for these three "G's".
What are God, Glory, and Gold?
This is the French term for those who lived beyond French settlements as fur trappers.
Who were the coureurs de bois?
Puritan minister Thomas Hooker led about 100 settlers out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony because he believed in limited government power. He then established this colony, and present-day state.
What is Connecticut?
New Netherland was given by this king of England to his brother, the Duke of York, who renamed the colony "New York".
Who was King Charles II?
The Dutch bought this notable piece of land from Native Americans for twenty-four dollars worth of items.
What is Manhattan Island?
These were the three social classes in New Spain, listed starting with the highest class.
In this uprising, both African American and white indentured servants rose up against the Virginian government, ending in many executions and the stripping of African American rights.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
This minister in Salem believed in the separation of church and state, and so went on to found the state and colony of Rhode Island.
Who was Roger Williams?
This society got its name because people could not pronounce the word Deustch.
Who were the Pennsylvania Dutch?
This colonial region included Connecticut, the Massachusetts Bay Colony/Maine, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire.
What were the New England Colonies?