5th Chapter 3 Settlements

Why did Spanish settlements spread in North America?

• The Spanish army built a series of forts
• Spanish missionaries set up villages, called missions
• The Spanish navy set up bases along the coast
• Spanish teachers built colleges and universities

How did contact with the Spaniards harm Native Americans?

• The Spanish settlers took all of the forearms from the Native Americans
• The Spaniards joined with the English settlers and enslaved the Native Americans
• The Spaniards passed European diseases to the Native Americans.  As a result many Native Americans died.
• The Spaniards gave large amounts of gold to the Native Americans, which the Native Americans used in trade with the English.

Which of the following explains why the location of the St. Augustine settlement was important to the Spaniards?

• The settlement served as a base for expanding Spanish settlements into the Carolinas and Virginia
• St. Augustine became a major center of commerce with the French and English
• St. Augustine was the nearest point in North America to Spain
• The shipping route that Spanish ships used to take gold and silver from the Americas to Spain passed near St. Augustine.  Soldiers at the St. Augustine fort protected Spanish ships from pirates.

How did Native Americans help the economy of New Spain?

• They died from diseases.
• They had many conflicts with the settlers.
• They worked in the gold and silver mines.
• They were overworked by the Spanish.

How did the Europeans and the Native Americans view land differently?

• Native Americans believed the land didn't belong to anyone, the Europeans believed land was private property.
• Europeans believed the land belonged to spirits.
• Native Americans believed land was private property, Europeans believed the land didn't belong to anyone.
• The viewed it the same

Which answer BEST explains why England wanted to start a colony in North America?

• England's bitter rival, Spain, had North American colonies.  England wanted a North American colony to compete with Spain.
• The English wanted to bring Native Americans back to England to work.
• The English rulers wanted to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
• English explorers had discovered large amounts of gold in what is now Virginia.

Which statements BEST describes the relationship between the English colonies on Roanoke Island and the local Native Americans?

• The English colonists killed all of the local Native Americans as soon as they arrived at Roanoke Island.
• The English colonists converted the Native Americans to Christianity.
• There was probably conflict between the two groups because of a shortage of food.
• The English colonists enslaved the local Native Americans.

Which of the following was a key factor in the survival and progress of the English colony at Jamestown?

• Enslaved Africans taught the settlers how to grow rice.  Rice became an important cash crop in Jamestown.
• The Virginia Company finally began to earn profits when  John Rolfe started to grow a new type of tobacco in Jamestown.
• King James I finally sent a large English army to Jamestown to subdue the Spanish forces that had been attacking the English colonists
• In 1610, King James I sent hundreds of English families to the colony.  The New settlers started large farms, and the colony developed a strong economy based on farming.

Which of the following is true about the geography and environment of the Jamestown colony?

• The colony was built high on a coastal mountain range, which made it hard to attack
• Colonial farmers were able to earn a great deal  of money because of the colony's tropical climate
• The colony's location in the Pacific coast of North America made it easy for the colonists to trade with Asian civilizations.
• The site of the colony was almost surrounded by water.  Some of the water was unclean, and mosquitos that bred around the water carried disease.

Which of the following did the Pilgrims promise to do in the Mayflower Compact?

• allow their members not to take part in the church if they did not want to.
• conquer the Native Americans
• work together to make 'just and equal laws'
• defeat the Spanish army that had built a fort in New England