Chapter 4 Review - Building the First Colonies

Many colonists made money from tobacco, a ____ that they sold in England.

• raw material
• cash crop
• royal colony
• government

Spanish soldiers built ______ to protect lands on the edge of New Spain.

• presidios
• plantations
• haciendas
• missions

Some Spanish settlers enslaved Indians to work on their _______ because there was a shortage of workers to do the labor on large farms.

• presidios
• borderlands
• missions
• plantations

Spanish settlers built ____, where Spanish priests and Indians lived side by side. 

• missions
• presidios
• plantations
• haciendas

Am Abenaki Indian named _______ visited Pilgrims who brought along a Wampanoag Indian named Tisquantum to teach settlers how to fish and farm.

• Samoset
• Squanto
• John Smith
• Powhatan

Samuel de Champlain built _____, the first French settlement in North America.

• Baton Rouge
• Montreal
• Quebec
• Canada

________ became the capital of France's southern colony, Louisiana.

• New Orleans
• Baton Rouge
• Quebec
• Montreal

The first Dutch colony was New Netherlands, and its main trading center was _____.

• New Amsterdam
• New Orleans
• New England
• New Spain

Which of the following changed life for many American Indians after the arrival of the Spanish?

• adobe
• brick
• chickens
• horses

Why did French merchants help set up settlements in North America?

• They wanted wealth from the fur trade.
• They wanted the Indian's gold.
• They wanted to control the route to Asia. 
• They wanted to force the Spanish off their land.