US History Chapter 2 "Europeans Establish Colonies"

Religious toleration in New Netherland attracted

a diverse group of colonists.

The French differed from the Spanish regarding their relationship with Native Americans because the French

did not intimidate or enslave Native Americans.

Carolina differed from the other southern colonies by

dividing into two separate colonies.

Praying towns were organized to

force Indians to adopt English customs.

In 1655, New Sweden

surrendered to New Netherlands.

In the 1600s, Virginia attracted many colonists because of

the headright system.

Puritans believed that salvation depended on

the will of God.

Unlike the Spanish, the French

took little land from Native Americans.

What did leaders of Rhode Island believe would happen to religion if church and state were connected?

Religion would become corrupted

Which of the following was a push factor that encouraged people to leave England?

Religious persecution

For which reason was Quebec founded in 1608?

To repel rivals of a French company

New York became an English colony when

(NOT) the Duke of York left New Jersey to form a new colony.

Which of the following describes the castas in Spain's colonies?

A system of racial hierarchy

For which reasons did New France grow slowly?

Conflict with the Iroquois, poor climate

More conservative Puritans founded

Connecticut.

Georgia was initially founded as a haven for

English debtors.

What effect did Cortéz's successes in plundering Mexico have on later conquistadors such as Hernando de Soto and Francisco Vásquez de Corona?

It led them to seek their own golden empires.

Who wanted to make one of England's southern colonies into a haven for English debtors?

James Oglethorpe

The first permanent English colony in America was

Jamestown.

Why did Spain colonize Florida and the Rio Grande valley?

Spain wanted to protect its colony in Mexico from other Europeans

Why did the Pueblos revolt against the Spanish in 1680?

The Pueblos suffered many losses and burdens under colonial rule

Why did the English settle in the Chesapeake Bay area?

The bay offered good harbors, and the land was fertile

Why was the government in Massachusetts Bay Colony the most radical in colonial America?

The male colonists elected a governor and assembly

Use the excerpt and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions. "This city [Temixtitlan, Mexico] has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling. There is one square twice as large as that of the city of Salamanca, surrounded by porticoes, where are daily assembled more than sixty thousand souls, engaged in buying and selling; and where are found all kinds of merchandise that the world affords, embracing the necessaries of life, as for instance articles of food, as well as jewels of gold and silver, lead, brass, copper, tin, precious stones, bones, shells, snails, and feathers." —Hernán Cortés: from Second Letter to Charles V, 1520 What kinds of items were found at a public square in Temixtitlan?

both necessities and jewels

Robert de La Salle is noted for

claiming for France the land around the Mississippi River

Use the excerpt and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions. ". . . No person within the said colony, at any time hereafter shall be . . . punished, disquieted, or called in question, for any differences in opinion in matters of religion, and do not actually disturb the civil peace of our said colony; but that all and every person and persons may, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, freely and fully have and enjoy his and their own judgments and consciences, in matters of religious concernments . . ." —Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, July 15, 1963 For what freedom did the Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations provide?

freedom of religion

The French came to the Americas primarily to

profit from the fur trade.

The Protestant Reformation in Europe resulted in

rivalry among many new religious denominations.

Spain explored and established colonies in the Americas in part to

search for gold and other riches.

Bartolomé de Las Casas worked to

win laws protecting Indians.