Social Studies Chapter 4: 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 borderlands on the edge of New Spain.

• presidios

• plantations

• haciendas

• missions

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

• missions

• presidios

• plantations

• haciendas

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

• Baton Rouge
• Montreal
• Quebec
• Canada

Which of the following changed life for many American Native Americans 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. 

People who agree to work without pay for a certain length of time, usually 4-7 years are called ___.

• indentured servants
• slaves
• native indentures
• native servants

A ______ is a lawmaking branch of government.

• legislature
• established church
• royal colony
• governor

Why did the Pilgrims want to go to North America?

• They wanted to have religious freedom.

• They wanted to establish new jobs in the colonies.

• They wanted to join the Church of England.

• They were forced to leave for North America.

What cash crop helped the Virginia colony grow and prosper?

• cotton
• rice
• tobacco
• sugarcane