chapter 8

Who did Juan Ponce de Leon travel with to the New World?

• Hernando de Soto
• Christopher Columbus
• Pedro Menendez de Aviles
• John Rolfe

What was the original reason that the English wanted a Georgia colony?

• To sell fur skins
• protection from Spain for the colony of South Carolina
• To have more than the Spanish and French
• To have some place to live in the winter

What crop did English explorer John Rolfe develop that became very profitable for his country?

• corn
• Rice
• Wheat
• Tobacco

Name a primary reason why England wanted to come to North America 

• To sell tea
• To build a new city
• To spread their religious beliefs
• Have a buffer between Spanish Florida and English Carolina

What was the 1st official English colony?

• New Amsterdam
• New France
• St. Augustine
• Jamestown

What is the economic theory called where a colony exports raw materials to the mother country for production and sale?

• Free Enterprise
• Mercantilism
• Accounting
• Quantum Theory

What present day state did the French claim as their land?

• North Carolina
• Mississippi
• Florida
• New Jersey

What present day state did the French claim as their land?

• Alabama
• Ohio
• California
• Rhode Island

What present day state did the French claim as their land?

• Louisiana
• Georgia
• New York
• South Carolina

What business was very profitable between the French and Native Americans?

• Trading guns
• Trading furs
• trading horses
• trading dogs