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2.1 & 2.2 New Spain & French,Dutch Colonies

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 1hrs 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain

a)

Presidio

b)

Mestizo

c)

Conquistador

d)

Creole

2.

A town is Spanish colony

a)

Presidio

b)

Pueblo

c)

Peninsular

d)

Creole

3.

A fort where soldiers lived in Spanish colonies

a)

Conquistador

b)

Presidio

c)

Hesitate

d)

Creole

4.

A religious settlement run by Catholic priests and fries; a settlement aimed to spread religion to a new area.

a)

Mestizo

b)

Pueblo

c)

Peninsular

d)

Mission

5.

A person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony

a)

Shrewd

b)

Presidio

c)

Peninsular

d)

Conquistador

6.

A person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents

a)

Creole

b)

Mission

c)

Mestizo

d)

Hesitate

7.

In Spain’s American colonies; a person mixed with Spanish and Indian background

a)

Conquistador

b)

Pueblo

c)

Mestizo

d)

Creole

8.

This Aztec emperor made the mistake of welcoming Spaniards into his kingdom. He was later hit by a rock from his own soldiers and died shortly after.

a)

Tenochtitlan

b)

Moctezuma

c)

Atahualpa

d)

Pizarro

9.

This conquistador sailed down the Pacific coast of South America with less than 200 soldiers. In 1532, they found and conquered the Incan empire.

a)

Hernando Cortes

b)

Bartolome de Las Casas

c)

Juan St. Augustine

d)

Francisco Pizarro

10.

This first presidio was built in 1565. It was the first permanent European settlement in what would later become the United States.

a)

Tenonchtitlan

b)

Florida

c)

St. Augustine

d)

Santa Fe

11.

This conquistador and his army was responsible for entering - eventually conquering - the capital of the Aztecs.

a)

Hernando Cortes

b)

Bartolome de Las Casas

c)

Francisco Pizarro

d)

Hernando De Soto

12.

In this social class, people were born in Spain and held the highest jobs in government and the Church. They owned large tracts of land as well as rich gold and silver mines.

a)

creoles

b)

Indians

c)

mestizos

d)

peninsulares

13.

a waterway through or around North America

a)

Northwest Passage

b)

Channel

c)

River

d)

Gulf

14.

movement to reform the catholic church in the 1500’s

a)

Protestant Reformation

b)

Representative Government

c)

Society of Jesuits

d)

Bacon's Rebellion

15.

Runners of the woods

a)

Coureur de bois

b)

Courier of trees

c)

Its ya bois

d)

Charter boys

16.

legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

a)

Charter

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Alliance

d)

COnstitution

17.

representative assembly in colonial Virginia

a)

House of Burgesses

b)

Congress

c)

Ayunemiento

d)

Council of Leaders

18.

political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

a)

democracy

b)

representative Government

c)

Monarchy

d)

Theocracy

19.

signed in 1215, a British document that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights

a)

Charter

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Alliance

d)

COnstitution

20.

a 1676 raid led by Nathaniel Bacon against the governor and Native Americans in Virginia

a)

Bacon's fight

b)

Bacon's Revolution

c)

Bacon's Rebellion

d)

Bacon's Bar fight

21.

The edge of the settlement

a)

Frontier

b)

Mission

c)

Fort

d)

Trading post

22.

Which 2 groups wanted to form an alliance with the Native Americans?

a)

Spanish

b)

Dutch

c)

English

d)

French

23.

Who created food rules at Jamestown?

a)

John Smith

b)

Franciso Pizarro

c)

Hernando Cortes

24.

Which was the first English settlement in the Americas

a)

Roanoke

b)

Jamestown

c)

Massachusetts Bay

25.

The first French colonists in North America were mostly interested in

a)

religious freedom

b)

fishing, trapping, and trading

c)

plantations near New Orleans

d)

silver and gold

26.

What caused the greatest conflict between Native Americans and European settlers?

a)

Political Inequality

b)

Land Disputes

c)

Religion

d)

Economics