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Building the First Colonies

Spanish Colonies

Question: How did Spain protect its claims in the Americas?
Answer: It formed colonies.

Question: What is a colony?
Answer: Land ruled by another country.

Question: What is the difference between slavery and an indentured servant?
Answer: An indentured servant works off their passage to America and becomes free at some point. A slave works for no pay against their will, likely for all of their lives.

Question: What is the difference between a farm and a plantation?
Answer: A plantation is a VERY large farm with the purpose of raising large amounts of crops for sale.

Question: How are the borderlands and presidios related?
Answer: The lands on the edge of Spain's claims are called the borderlands. Presidios were forts built in the borderlands to help protect the land claims.

The Virginia Colony

Question: England knew that it could benefit from the raw materials that were found in the Americas. They didn't want Spain to have all of the glory! What is a raw material?
Answer: A resource that can be used to make a product.

Question: What is the mystery of the "lost colony"?
Answer: In 1587, a group of colonists mysteriously disappeared. They are considered the "lost colony of Roanoke Island". The word "Croatoan", a local Native American tribe, was carved into a tree.

Question: Jamestown was named in honor of King James. This was England's first permanent colony. John Smith helped to save Jamestown how?
Answer: He created a rule that if you didn't work, you didn't eat.

Question: How are cash crop, profit, and tobacco related?
Answer: Tobacco was a cash crop because you couldn't eat it, and it made great profits for the Virginia Company. Remember that a profit is the money left over after all costs have been paid.

Question: What was the House of Burgesses? 

Why did King James I make Virginia a royal colony?

Answer: The House of Burgesses was Virginia's legislature, or law making branch.

King James I made Virginia a royal colony to take control of it to bring resolution to the Powhatan wars.


The Plymouth Colony

Question: Why did the Pilgrims want to go to North America?
Answer: To have religious freedom.

Question: How are the Mayflower Compact, majority rule, and self-government related?
Answer: The Mayflower Compact was an agreement that fair laws would be made and followed by the colony. Majority rule is when more than half of a group vote something in, then everyone must follow along. Self-government is the idea that a group of people can create and enforce laws on themselves.

Question: How did Tisquantum (Squanto) help the colonists?
Answer: They taught them where to fish, and how to plant important foods like corn and squash.

Question: How did growing troubles between English colonists and Native Americans change life in New England?
Answer: Life became harder for the colonists as more and more fighting broke out with the Native Americans.

Question: Do you think that the ideas of the Mayflower Compact are still important today? Why or why not?
Answer: Yes, they are because our government is based upon these principles of self-government and majority rule.

The French and the Dutch

Question: Why did New France grow slowly?
Answer: Because most French people were not interested in settling in North America.

Question: How are Samuel de Champlain and Quebec City related? 

What waterway is Quebec City located off of?

Why is Quebec City so significant (important)?

Answer: Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec along the St. Lawrence River. Quebec was the first French Settlement in North America.

Question: What is the relationship between supply and demand?
Answer: Supply is the amount of good that is offered for sale. The demand is the desire by consumers for a product.

Question: In New Netherland, there were great conflicts between the Native American population of the Algonquians and the Dutch. How did this affect the Algonquians?
Answer: The Algonquians were nearly wiped out.

Question: Why did the French and the Dutch set up colonies? Also, who were they in competition with?
Answer: They mainly wanted to trade for furs, but they also wanted to compete with Spain and England.

The French and the Dutch Continued

Question: The Huron and Iroquois tribes wanted to control lands in present-day Canada. Who were the Huron people allies (partners) with?
Answer: The Huron were allies with the French.

Question: What does the word Mississippi mean? Hint: Look for the Huron statue and read on that page.
Answer: Mississippi means "Father of Waters". 

Question: What is a "proprietary colony"?

Why was it hard for the French to control land in North America?

Answer: A proprietary colony is owned by one person.

It was hard to control land because they claimed large land areas, but had few colonists to settle the land and lay claim to it (protect it as France's).


Question: How was New Amterdam's location an advantage?
Answer: Its location at the mouth of the Hudson River provided a link to inland farms and fur traders and ocean access for shipping goods.

Question: Why do you think that some Native American tribes made partnerships with settlers?
Answer: For survival!