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WorksheetsChapter 3: Lesson 2: A Changing Continent
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which of the following statements are TRUE about Spanish, French, and English competition for North America?
Each employed different economical systems.
All competed for land and trade.
Each had the same forms of government
All sought wealth and global power.
True or False: Of the three nations (Spain, France, and England), England was the only country that encouraged self-government in the New World.
True
False
The original Spanish system of forced labor in New Spain.
Indentured Servitude System
Encomienda System
Hacienda System
Repartimiento de Labor
Term used to classify those living in New Spain that were descendants of Spanish and African Slave (children who had one Spanish mother/father and one African Slave mother/father)
Indios
Criollos
Mestisos
Mulattoes
Term used to classify those living in New Spain that were born in the Americas (NOT IN SPAIN)
Criollos
Peninsulares
Mulattoes
Indios
Term used to classify those living in New Spain that were descendants of two Native American parents.
Peninsulares
Criollos
Mulattoes
Indios
Term used to classify those living in New Spain that were descendants of Spanish and Native American (children who had one Spanish mother/father and one Native American mother/father)
Negros
Indios
Mestisos
Mulattoes
Term used to classify those living in New Spain that were direct descendants from Spain (born in Spain)
Criollos
Mulattoes
Mestisos
Peninsulares
Term used to classify those living in New Spain that were descendants of two African parents or a slave taken from Africa.
Negros
Indios
Mulattoes
Mestisos
Person on a religious mission, usually to convert others to Christianity.
Friar
Missionary
Priest
Padre
Settlements in New Spain designed to spread Christianity.
Haciendas
Encomiendas
Missions
Rancheros
True or False: The main economic source for the French in the New World was fur trading.
True
False
Samuel de Champlain formed alliances with which of the following native groups? (check all boxes that apply)
Iroquois
Huron
Algonquin
Cherokee
True or False: Between the late 1600s and early 1700s, French explorers expanded their land claims from present day Canada down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
True
False
As French settlements expanded into Louisiana and Mississippi, the fertile soil provided the ability to grow cash crops such as indigo, rice, and tobacco on lands known as?
Plantations
Haciendas
Farmsteads
Granges
Positive relations between Champlain and native groups allowed for which of the following? (check all boxes that apply)
The discovery of the Northwest Passage.
Traveling freely and safely among French settlements without fear of attacks.
The formation of a government which represented both French and native groups.
Created trade relationships that benefited both the French and native groups.
