2.2 Study

Question 1

Why did the population of Spanish Florida remain small ?

Answer 1

Gold and Silver was scarce

Question 2

Santa Fe

Answer 2

•Capital of New Mexico
•1st permanent European settlement in southwest United States

Question 3

What were the goals of the Spanish ?

Answer 3

Desire for wealth and to spread Catholicism

Question 4

What were the key pillars of Spanish settlements in North America ?

Answer 4

•Encomienda System
•Missionary Efforts

Question 5

Samuel de Champlain

Answer 5

•“Father of New France”
•Founded Quebec

Question 6

Were colonists mostly men or woman ?

Answer 6

Men

Question 7

What were the French’s goals ?

Answer 7

•WEALTH
•Some wanted to convert to Christianity

Question 8

What did the French trade with Native Americans ?

Answer 8

Fur and alliances through intermarriage with American Indian women

Question 9

Robert de La Salle

Answer 9

Claimed the region he named Louisiana

Question 10

French also established

Answer 10

New Orleans

Question 11

The Netherlands sponsored expeditions were in search of a

Answer 11

NW passage to Asia

Question 12

The Dutch claimed to

Answer 12

New Amsterdam (later New York)

Question 13

What did the Dutch aim to do ?

Answer 13

Develop trade in New World

Question 14

What was the goal of the Protestant English government ?

Answer 14

To minimize Spain’s Catholics influence in the New World

Question 15

Did the English have a high population ?

Answer 15

Yes, 50,000 people which passed the French, Dutch, and Spanish

Question 16

English settlers..

Answer 16

•Higher % of families and women
•More interested in farming
•Less intermarriage with natives

Question 17

Population growth in British Colonies led to

Answer 17

competition over land

Question 18

What were the English’s goals ?

Answer 18

•Economic Prosperity
•Religious freedom
•Focused on Agriculture

Question 19

King Henry VII

Answer 19

Led Protestant Reformation before Elizabeth I took the throne