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Dec 14, 2015
Chapter 4The Spanish Colonies
The Virginia Colony
The Plymouth Colony
The Dutch and French
General Information
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Final Jeopardy
Topic 1: 400• Question:• These were started in the borderlands of New
Spain to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
• Answer• Missions
Topic 1: 600• Question:• Give two effects missionaries had on Native
Americans in New Spain• Answer• Converted them to be catholic• Forced them to work as slaves• Forced to change how they lived• Forced to change how they work
Topic 2: 200• Question:• The Virginia colony made huge profits from
the sale of this crop• Answer• tobacco
Topic 2: 400• Question:• The name of England’s first permanent
settlement in North America• Answer• Jamestown
Topic 2: 800• Question:• The reason the Jamestown land was a bad
choice for the settlement. • Answer• The land was swampy and not good for
farming.
Topic 2: 1000• Question:• Give one reason the House of Burgesses was
important.• Answer• Helped make laws that were needed to keep
order.• The first representative assembly in the English
colonies.
Topic 3: 200• Question:• What was an advantage of the Pilgrims’
building their settlement on a bay?• Answer• Easy access to shipping and trade
Topic 3: 400• Question:• “We whose names are written agree to enact,
constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws…for the good of the Colony.”
• What do these words from the Mayflower Compact mean?
• Answer• The people who signed agree to follow the laws.
Topic 3: 800• Question:• Tisquantum helped the first colonists in New
England by teaching them how to do these two skills…
• Answer• Farm the land and fish
Topic 4: 200• Question:• New Netherland was established in the area
that is now known as these two US States.• Answer• New York and New Jersey
Topic 4: 400• Question:• The part of North America that LaSalle
claimed for France in 1684.• Answer• Mississippi River Valley
Topic 4: 1000• Question:• Samuel de Champlain founded this as the first
French Settlement.• Answer• Quebec
Topic 5: 400• Question:• Name at least two activities that made up the
economy of the North American colonies. • Answer• Farming• Ranching• Fishing• Fur trading• Shipping goods back and forth to Europe
Topic 5: 1000• Question:• Workers who came from Europe and worked
for four to seven years and were then freed to live in the colonies.
• Answer• Indentured servants