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European Colonization Review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Used the encomienda system

a)

Spanish

b)

French

c)

English

2.

Settled on the east coast of North America

a)

Spanish

b)

French

c)

English

3.

Motivated by the fur trade and spreading Christianity

a)

Spanish

b)

French

c)

English

4.

Used Natives as slave labor

a)

Spanish

b)

French

c)

English

5.

Established settlements near the St. Lawrence River and Mississippi River

a)

Spanish

b)

French

c)

English

6.

For the most part, established friendly relations with Natives by trading with them

a)

Spanish

b)

French

c)

English

7.

Settled in the Caribbean, and Central and South America

a)

Spanish

b)

French

c)

English

8.

Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?

a)

English settler at Roanoke

b)

Spanish priest who argued to remove the encomienda system

c)

Spanish colonist who owned a large plot of land on Hispaniola

d)

French fur trade

9.

What did the Valladolid debates discuss?

a)

rights of indigenous people in the Spanish colonies

b)

trading rights between Spain, France, and England

c)

rights of Catholics vs. Protestants in the New World

d)

rights of Wampanoag in the English colonies

10.

What was the name of the indigenous population on the island of Hispaniola where Columbus landed?

a)

Wampanoag

b)

Secotan

c)

Powhatan

d)

Taino