1. Study Guide Chapter 2

2. Jacques Cartier

3. Hernando DeSoto Spanish Mississippi River Basin
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4. Giovanni de Verrazano Italian who sailed for France
Explored the Hudson River Valley

5. Pedro Menendez de Aviles
Spanish explorer who founded St. Augustine

6. Robert de La Salle
French
Explored the Mississippi River Valley

7. House of Burgesses A Virginia lawmaking body
The First Representative form of Government in North America

8. Mission
Religious outpost established to convert Native Americans to Christianity.

9. Quebec French landholding in Canada.
Founded by Samuel de Champlain for protection against rivals.

10. St. Augustine Founded by the Spanish
Oldest continually occupied European settlement in the US.

11. Coureurs de bois
French fur traders

12. Jamestown
the first English permanent settlement in America

13. Mayflower Compact
Written by the Pilgrims to establish a government when they landed in Plymouth.

14. Charter
certificate of permission from the King

15. Presidio
Spanish forts set up near missions to protect the Missionaries.

16. Metis
Children of mixed French and Native American parents

17. Mestizos
Children of mixed Spanish and Native American parents.

18. Push factors
motivates people to leave their home countries

19. Pull Factors
Motivates people to immigrate to a country

20. Viceroy
king-appointed ruler of Spanish territories in Americas

21. Royal colony vs. Proprietary colony (what’s the difference?)
Royal- controlled by the Crown
Proprietary- owned by a wealthy or group of wealthy investors

22. Why did the Spanish explorers come to North America?

23. Why did the French explorers come to North America?
NW Passage

24. Why did the English settle in the Chesapeake region?
The land was fertile and close to the ocean

25. Treatment of Native Americans:
Spanish- Harsh and brutal
French- Working relationship

26. What was the main cash crop of Virginia and Maryland?
Tobacco

27. Which religious group were pacifists?

28. What helped Jamestown survive?
learning to cultivate tobacco, a popular trade item in Europe.

29. What was the main cash crop of the Carolinas?
Rice

30. Founder of Georgia

31. Who was Georgia founded for?
England’s poor

32. Founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn

33. Headright system –
Land grants to anyone who could pay for the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.

34. How did Bacon’s rebellion lead to an expansion of slavery in the colonies?
Slaves were preferable to indentured servants because they would never be free to compete for land.

35. Puritans
Religious group that wanted to “purify” the church of all Catholic Rituals
the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

36. Which European country claimed a lot of land in North America but settled on very little?
France

37. Explain the impact European colonization had on the lives of Native Americans. Be sure to include both positive and negative impacts of the fur trade.
The Good:
The goods Native Americans traded for made their lives easier.
Education and health opportunities increased

38. The Bad:
- expanding territory for beaver pelts put tribes that normally didn’t see each other into conflict over hunting ground.
- Native Americans lost their traditional way of life.

39. Explain basic differences in how North America was colonized between Spain, France, and England
Spain- Claimed a lot of land in the south and west.
France- Claimed very little land from NA’s.
England- Claimed and settled the entire Atlantic Coast