U.S History - The First French, Dutch, and English Colonies

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The Conquistadors and New Spain

Multiple Choice

What weapon proved most destructive against the Aztec and Inca populations ?

• horses

• advance weapons

• shrewdness

• disease

Multiple Select

Which of the following reasons best explains why the Spanish defeated the Inca?

• The Spanish were more superior and had greater numbers of soldiers

• The Spanish used catapults to destroy Incan forts.

• 
  The Spanish used trickery and pretended to have other intentions

• The Spanish had horses and better equipment.

• Europeans brought diseases that almost wiped out the population

Multiple Choice

Cortés set sail for Mexico in 1519 because he believed he could find an empire that was

• extremely wealthy.

• eager to convert to Christianity.

• poorly defended.

• easily influenced.

Multiple Choice

Why did the Pueblo revolt against the Spanish missionaries in New Mexico?

• The Pueblo did not want the Spanish to take their gold.

• 
  The Spanish did not tolerate the Pueblo Indians’ traditional religious practices.

• 
  The Pueblo knew what the Spanish had done to the Aztec and Inca.

• 
  The Spanish did not adopt the Pueblo Indians’ language and culture.

Multiple Choice

Bartolomé de las Casas’s efforts to protect Indians had little impact because

• 
  the royal government did not listen to him.

• 
  the royal government did not listen to him.

• Indians were grateful to work for the Spanish.

• 
  local officials ignored laws protecting Indians.

Match

Match the following

• 1. 1. Conquistador

• 2. 2. Hernando Cortes

• 3. Franciso Pizzaro

• 4. Juan Ponce de Leon

• 5. 5. Franciso Coronado

A. Spanish explorer

B.captured Moctezuma & the Aztec empire

C. brought down the Inca empire

D.traveled 2 Florida 4 fountain of youth

E. looked for 7 cities of gold n Arizona

• A. Spanish explorer

• B.captured Moctezuma & the Aztec empire

• C. brought down the Inca empire

• D.traveled 2 Florida 4 fountain of youth

• E. looked for 7 cities of gold n Arizona

Multiple Choice

A town that centers around farm and trade

• Pueblos

• Presidios

• Missions

• Peninsulares

Multiple Choice

A fort were soldiers live

• Pueblos

• Presidios

• Missions

• Peninsulares

Multiple Choice

Settlements run by Catholic priests and friars to convert Native Americans to Christianity

• Pueblos

• Presidios

• Missions

• Peninsulares

Multiple Choice

In the New Spain social class system, which group of people were allowed to work in the highest government and own the largest tracts of land including gold and silver mines.

• Presidios

• Mestizos

• Creoles

• Peninsulares

Multiple Choice

In the New Spain social class system, which group of people were allowed to go to college, practice law, and own farms and ranches?

• Presidios

• Mestizos

• Creoles

• Peninsulares

Multiple Choice

In the New Spain social class system, they were not allowed to train for skill labor and work as carpenters, shoemakers, tailors, and bakers. Largest social class at the time.

• Presidios

• Mestizos

• Creoles

• Peninsulares

Multiple Select

In the New Spain social class system, they were forced off their land and made to work as forced labor and given no rights or access to education or ability to change their position in life

• Native Americans

• Mestizos

• Africans

• Peninsulares

Multiple Choice

The number of Africans who were taken from their land, forced onto ships and brought to the Americas as slaves between the 1500 to 1700s is estimated to be around...

• Around 10 million

• Around 1 million

• Around 100 thousand

• Around 600,000 thousand

Conflict over the riches of the Americas

Europeans nations began to compete for riches around the world. Religious differences heightened their rivalry. Soon , there were competing religious views.

European Colonization of North America

Motivations for others to colonize the Americas:

• WEALTH

RELIGIOUS CONFLICT

NORTHWEST PASSAGE

European Colonization of North America

Motivations for others to colonize the Americas:

• ​wealth (gold)

• religious conflict (god)

• northwest passage (glory... from getting goods from Asia)

Religious Differences = Rivalries

In the late 1500s, religion divided the states of Western Europe:

• ​Roman Catholic Church monarchs rules Spain and Frane

• Elizabeth I, rules England

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• The Netherlands, the Dutch people were mostly Protestant

European Colonization of North America

What was going on in Europe at the time... you ask

Roman Catholic Church monarchs rules Spain and France

Elizabeth I, rules England

The Netherlands, mostly Protestant

French Colonization of North America

Samuel de Champlain founded Port Royal, the first permeant French Settlement in North America.


Pioneered (?)


Main Motivation (?)

French Colonization of North America

Samuel de Champlain founded Port Royal, the first permeant French Settlement in North America.


Pioneered - First permeant settlement in North America



Main Motivation - Fishing, Trapping, & Trading... an Christianity

Working together

French colonist worked with American Indians on lands called



Also known as


What did the French bring?

What did the Native Americans get in return?

Working together

French colonist worked with American Indians on settlements called coureurs de bois

Also known as runners of the woods

What did the French bring?
knives, kettles, cloth, and more

What did the Native Americans get in return?
better skins and other valuable furs

• Each row is assigned a country.

• Each group, within the row, is their own colony

• Work together for trade

• Do your research on the following:
  
  

• ​What was your motivation for traveling to the Americas

• How will you make money or resources enough to survive?

• How do you treat/ trade the Native Americans?

• Where was the location of your colonies & what resources did you use?