Early Explorers

Jamestown was the first permanent European settlement in the new world

• True

• False

The British came to North America for a variety of reasons including great riches, a better life, cheap land, and freedom of religion

• True

• False

England's first colony in North America was Roanoke Island.

• True

• False

The relationship between the Native Americans and the settlers was friendly.

• True

• False

The Middle Colonies were known as the "breadbasket" colonies.

• True

• False

Tho protect their gold and silver mines from other European countries, Spanish Conquistadors cread a buffer called

• The Presidio

• The Spanish Borderlands

• St. Augustine

• The Atlantic Ocean

The French were slow to settle in Quebec because

• They were mainly interested in trading and fishing

• It was too cold

• They didn't speak the language

• It was too dangerous

The Pilgrims survived their first winter in Plymouth with help from

• Their friends in Jamestown

• The Wampanoag

• John Winthrop

• The Spanish

The governor of New Netherland was forced to surrender his colony to the English in 1664, forming what new city and colony?

• New Jersey and New Brunswick

• Virginia and Richmond

• New York and New York City

• Massachusetts and Boston

Many settlers moved to Virginia because of

• the strong government

• tobacco

• religious freedom

• all of the above