NEW SPAIN/LOOKING WEST FROM EUROPE AMERICAN INDIANS AND SPANISH MISSIONARIES THE VIRGINIA COLONY THE PLYMOUTH COLONY FRENCH/DUCH CLAIMS
100
What is that capital of the Aztec empire?
Tenochitilan
100
What are soldiers?
The first Spaniards to come to New Spain.
100
What is gold, silver and copper?
Valuable minerals that the British found in the Americas?
100
What is A Description of New England?
This book was written by John Smith that included maps of the new world.
100
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The document that wrote an agreement to form a government and obey all laws for the good of the colony.
200
What is St. Augustine?
The first permanent settlement in the United States
200
What is encomienda?
The system that basically gave American Indians as slaves to Spanish settlers.
200
What is tobacco?
John Rolfe brought this plant to Jamestown because the Merchant Company had not made any money.
200
What is The Church of England?
The official church in England at the time of exploration.
200
What is France?
This country brought slaves from Africa to Louisiana to farm the land.
300
Who is Hernando Cortes
This person's army conquered the Aztecs
300
Who are Spanish Missionaries?
Committed to convert the American Indians to Christianity.
300
What is a Cash Crop?
A crop that is grown to be sold rather than used by the farmer.
300
Who are Separatists or Pilgrims?
These people moved to the new world because they disagreed with some of the English church's beliefs and would not join it.
300
Who are Marquette and Joliet?
King Louis XIV sent these two explorers to find the NW Passage but instead they found the Mississippi River.
400
Who is Queen Elizabeth I
This leader encouraged the English sea captains to attack the Spanish ships.
400
Who is Pope'?
This American Indian organized a revolt again the Spanish in New Mexico.
400
Who is Pocahontas?
John Smith was saved by this Powhatan who begged for his life.
400
Who is Tisquantum (also known as Squanto)
This Native American helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter in the new world by helping them learn to fish and grow the native crops.
400
What is The Dutch West India Company?
This company took control of the fur-trading in NY and NJ in 1621.
500
Who is King Francis I
This French ruler competed with English for exploring and obtaining land.
500
What are horses and sheep?
These two animals were brought to the Americas by the Spanish
500
What is House of Burgesses?
A 1619 law-making establishment in Jamestown that represented the people and set taxes..
500
What is The Plymouth Colony
This colony survived by dividing the land equally so that each individual was responsible to work to survive.
500
What is The Algonquian
This Native American group had conflict with the Dutch colonists and they attached each other's farms and villages.






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