Social Studies - Cultures Meet Flashcards
How many years after the English founded Jamestown did the Mayflower sail to Plymouth?
13
Why did Spain build missions in the borderlands of New Spain?
To convert Natives to Christianity
Who settled the Plymouth Colony, and what was their reason for doing so?
The Pilgrims; To worship freely in the New World
Who settled the Plymouth Colony, and what was their reason for doing so?
pilgrims, to worship freely
Why did some colonists enslave American Indians and Africans?
To work
What cash crop helped the Virginia Colony grow and prosper?
A. cotton
B. rice
C. tobacco
D. sugarcane
Tobacco
What was the main reason French and Dutch settlers started colonies in North
America?
A. they wanted religious freedom
B. they wanted to gain profits from the sales of furs in Europe
C. they wanted to set up plantations
D. they wanted to govern themselves
they wanted to govern themselves
What are two examples of cooperation and two examples of conflict between early European colonists and American Indians?
the Indians taught the colonists to grow food; the colonists traded metals and cloth with the Indians- The Powhatan Wars and when the European people built on where the Indians were living.
