Social Studies Review #4

Look at the map. Write why New France stretched so far to the west?

• French traders traveled west looking for timber.

• French traders traveled west looking for furs.

• French traders traveled west looking for whales

Who claimed the Mississippi River for New Fance?

• Henry Hudson

• Robert de La Salle

• Pocahontas

• John Wolfe

• Europe

• South America

• Asia

• Prince Henry

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

• Vasco da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Bartholomeu Dias

• Mayans

• Pueblo

• Aztecs

One way the judicial branch checks the legislative branch

• the President can veto laws passed by Congress

• appoints judges

• Can declare laws unconstitutional

resources that can be made into products, such a timber for making furniture

• triangular trade

• raw materials

• artisans

Explain why gristmills were built next to rivers and streams?

• Provided electricity to Puritans living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

• Power provided by moving water pushed the water wheel that turned the grind stones.

• It trapped whales and allowed colonist to capture them.

American intellectual, inventor, and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.

• Paul Revere

• Benjamin Franklin

• Patrick Henry