3-Settlements Take Root

1.       Why were Spanish monarchs interested in establishing American colonies?

2.      Which geographical areas did the Spanish control?

3.      How did the Spanish obtain wealth from the colonies?

4.      Where did Europeans intend on exploring?

5.      How did Native Americans lose their land to the Spanish?

6.      How did the Spanish order the class structure in the Americas?

7.      Why was St. Augustine an important colony?

8.     How did Native Americans and Africans lose their culture?

9.      What effect did the Spanish have on Native American populations?

10.  In which geographical regions did the Spanish settle?

1. Why did Queen Elizabeth I send Sir Walter Raleigh to North America?

2. Which geographical area did the English settle?

3. Why was Roanoke Island called the failed settlement and lost colony?

4. How was the second English colony different from the first one?

5. How was the relationship between Jamestown settlers and Native Americans?

6. How did relations improve between Jamestown and Powhatans?

7. How did tobacco benefit the Virginia Company?

8. How did the population of Jamestown grow?

9. How were the Jamestown settlers governed?

10.  Who were the only persons who could participate in government?

1. How were the Pilgrims different from the Jamestown settlers?

2. Why was the Mayflower Compact written?

3. Where did the Pilgrims settle?

4. What type of relationship did the Pilgrims have with Native Americans?

5. What did indentured servants receive in return for their work?

6. What were some of the religious rules that the Pilgrims agreed upon?

7. Where did the Puritans settle?

8. How were the Puritans different from the Pilgrims?

9. Who were the leaders of the Pilgrims and Puritans?

10.  What are two beliefs that the Puritans had that the Pilgrims did not?

1. Where did the French settle?

2. What were some of their cash crops?

3. Who were some of the French leaders?

4. Where did the Dutch settle?

5. How did the Dutch make a living?

6. Who were some of the Dutch leaders?

7. What brought the French and Dutch to the Americas?

8. What is the Northwest Passage?

9. How did the Iroquois get along with the French and Dutch?

10.  Why did France’s king Louis XIV take control of the French colony?

Civics and Government

1.   Class structure                

2.  House of Burgesses

3.  Indentured servant

4.  Massachusetts Bay Colony

5.  Mayflower Compact

6.  Monarchs 

7.Northwest passage          

8.representatives   

Places – Identify which country these terms belong to.

1.   Boston, Massachusetts

2.  St. Augustine

3.  Florida                                          

4.  Hispaniola

5.  Jamestown, Virginia                  

6.  Mexico and Florida

7.  New York                                 

8. Plymouth

       9. Quebec, Canada   

People

1.   Henry Hudson                

2.  monarchs             

3.  Samuel de Champlain

4.  King James I                    

5.  missionaries

6.  Queen Elizabeth 

7.  Sir Walter Raleigh          

8. Pilgrims                

9.  Puritans

 Economy

1.   cash crops             

2.  class structure                 

3.  commerce                        

4.  drought                

5.  encomienda         

6.  indentured servant

7.  investor                

8. Virginia Company