Settling the Colonies in North America

Write the correct vocabulary word next to its definition. WORD BANK: monopoly, Northwest Passage, royal province. 1. _________ a westward sea route across the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

• Northwest Passage

• monopoly

• royal province

• Silk Road

when companies are the only ones with permission to trade specific goods. For example the North American fur trade.

• monopoly

• oligopoly

• cartel

• free trade

Write the correct vocabulary word next to its definition. WORD BANK: monopoly, Northwest Passage, royal province. 3. _________ an area controlled by a king.

• royal province

• monopoly

• Northwest Passage

• colony

Jacques Cartier was looking for what when he claimed Canada for France?

• A new trade route to Asia

• Gold and riches

• A place to settle

• Religious freedom

What was the first successful French settlement in North America?

• Boston

• Montreal

• Quebec

• New Amsterdam

6. What did King Louis XIV do to establish peace between the settlers of New France and the Iroquois?

• He signed a treaty with the Iroquois.

• He sent military forces to New France.

• He ignored the conflict.

• He relocated the settlers.

Who claimed Louisiana for Louis XIV?

• Jacques Cartier

• Samuel de Champlain

• King Louis

• Robert de La Salle

8. Henry Hudson was looking for the __________ __________ when he found the Hudson River.

• Northwest Passage

• Silk Road

• Fountain of Youth

• El Dorado

The Dutch West India Company built a trading post at the south end of what is now __________.

• Manhattan

• Brooklyn

• Queens

• Staten Island

In _____ Peter Stuyvesant attached _____ _____ and the Dutch captured the colony.

• 1655, New Sweden

• 1664, New Amsterdam

• 1644, New England

• 1675, New France