Social Studies Chapter 7 lesson 2

How many English colonies were along the Atlantic Ocean by the 1700's?

• 15

• 14

• 13

• 12

a person who goes to learn about a place

• settler

• explorer

• colonist

• traveler

One of the first colonies in North America

• Plymouth

• Baton Rouge

• New Orleans

• Dallas

What explorer thought he reached the Indies?

• Lasalle

• Cartier

• Columbus

• Bienville

A region ruled by another country

• settlement

• town

• city

• colony

When Columbus thought he reached the Indies, he called the people he met

• Indians

• Americans

• friends

• enemies

the first people to live in a new place

• colonists

• arrivers

• settlers

• winners

Columbus had actually sailed to what we now call the

• West Indies

• East Indies

• Americas

• islands

Lasalle claimed the whole Mississippi Valley for

• England

• United States

• France

• Spain

The first two European nations to explore Louisiana were

• Spain and England

• Spain and France

• France and Europe

• France and Germany