Colonial Rivalries

Question 1

What were some early European settlements in the New World?

Answer 1

Jamestown 1607 and Quebec 1608 (Champlain)

Question 2

Whats so great about that fur stuff?

Answer 2

Beaver hats were status symbols and traded to Indians for guns/tools

Question 3

What was the Beaver Wars about?

Answer 3

fight over fur trade monopoly in mid-late 1600s in the Eastern Great Lakes

Question 4

Who fought the Beaver War?

Answer 4

Iroquois League/English vs. Algonquin/French and allies

Question 5

Why do the Beaver Wars end?

Answer 5

Iroquois realize they are warriors in European war, so they became neutral in Grande Paix Treaty of 1701

Question 6

Effects of Beaver Wars

Answer 6

French lost grip on fur trade, moves to England. Many tribes were wrecked by Iroquois

Question 7

What was Spanish imperialism like?

Answer 7

Colonize, convert, and force labor. Many missions wrecked by revolts

Question 8

French imperialism

Answer 8

peaceful fur trade, but sparked beaver wars and diseases wiped tribes

Question 9

Dutch settlement

Answer 9

Sent Henry Hudson to form New Amsterdam–peaceful fur trade

Question 10

English colonies

Answer 10

Concerned mostly with own religions and stealing land to farm