Early Colonies Quiz

Many of the Spanish colonist came to the Americas for what reason?

• They wanted to get rich.

• They wanted religious freedom.

• They wanted to learn more about Native Americans.

• They were looking for African slaves.

holding people against their will and making them work for free

• colony

• slavery

• plantation

• borderlands

religious settlement

• mission

• colony

• hacienda

• presidio

land ruled by another country

• colony

• mission

• hacienda

• presidio

As the Native Americans were dying off, the Spanish began using ____________________ as slaves.

• Africans

• Native Americans

• French

• Spanish

Missions were built by

• soldiers

• missionaries

Why did the Spanish want to colonize the New World.

• To spread their Catholic religion

• To bring gold and silver back to Spain.

• To trade all of the new foods and spices from the New World.

• All of the above.

Who were the conquistadors?

• Spanish people that helped reconquer the Iberian Peninsula.

• Spanish fighters who conquered the New World from the natives.

• Western Europeans who fought the Muslims during the Crusades.

• Explorers who wanted to discover a trade route to Asia.

How did the French expand their colonies in North America?

• Along paths of lakes and rivers

• Along the boundaries of Native tribes

• Military conquest of other European colonies

• Along major mountain formations

What was the primary "good" of French colonies?

• Bison

• Beaver

• Elk

• Reindeer