European Settlement & Exploration

America was first known as the ______________ to Europeans. 

• United States
• New World
• Atlanta
• Canada

What is the Spanish word for conqueror?

• technology
• conquistador
• settlement
• circumnavigate

A settlement far from the country that it rules 

• expedition
• economics
• colony
• monarch

A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others

• caravel

• missionary

• explore

• colony

A land controlled by another nation

• caravel

• missionary

• explore

• colony

Which term is best represented by this picture?

• missionary

• colony

• monastery

• conquistador

What was the goal of the Spanish missionaries who came to the Americas?

• to teach native people Spanish
• to educate the native people
• convert the native people to Christanity
• to teach the native people French

What was an important economic activity for both the French and Dutch settlements? 

• slave trade
• food trade
• fur trade
• disease trade

How did the environment challenge the first Jamestown settlers?

• Mosquitoes made people sick and they did not know how to farm
• Climate was too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter
• The Native Americans would not help the English 
• The supply ship did not return so they died

What event helped end the conflict between Jamestown settlers and American Indians? 

• Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
• The Iroquois Confederacy treaty
• The French and Indian War
• Powhatan agreed to move away from the French