Economy
What is the exchange of goods and services?
Trade
What was the 1st permanent English colony in North America?
Jamestown, Virginia
What area of North America did the French mainly settle in?
Canada
What tool on a map shows the direction North, South, East, and West?
Compass
What was the Middle Passage?
The route enslaved Africans were taken across the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the system that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas in trade?
Why did English settlers often come to the Americas?
Religious freedom
The French were mainly interested in what type of trade?
Fur Trade
What map feature explains what the symbols mean?
Key/Legend
What was the trade system that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
Triangular Trade
Spain became wealthy by taking what valuable metals from the americas?
Gold and silver
What crop helped Jamestown become successful?
Tobacco
What type of relationship did the French have with Native Americans?
Friendly and allied with the Native Americans
What imaginary line divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Equator
Plantations
What are crops called that were mainly grown to make money?
Cash crops
What document was signed on the Mayflower to create rules for the colony
Mayflower Compact
What river was most important to French exploration and trade?
Mississippi River
What are the lines that run east to west are called?
Latitude
What is slavery?
People are treated as property and forced to work without pay.
What was the main reason that European colonies came to the Americas?
Who was the group of people that traveled on the Mayflower?
The Pilgrims
Why did the French claim land along rivers?
To help with transportation and trade
What are the lines that run north to south called?
Longitude
What is one reason fewer French people settled into North America compared to the English?
Fewer economic opportunities for farming
Focus on trade instead of large settlements