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Spain
NAME:_______jonathan
shaul_____
1. The Spaniards were all about the 3 Gs: ___god_____, ____gold ______, &
___glory__.
2. A missionary was: _ people who try to convert others to there religoin__
a.
Why did Spaniards call Natives savages ________they did
not think they were civillized____.
3. Who was Christopher Columbus?
a.
He sailed from __portugal______ to _____bahamas_____ in
1492. (countries)
b.
He thought he was going to ______india________.
c.
How did he treat Native Americans in the regions he
landed?
horribly
4. Does Chris deserve his own federal holiday in your opinion? Explain.
No :(
5. A conquistador was: __Spanish explorers

6. and conquerors of new lands
7. __
a.
2 famous conquistadors were:
i. Hernan Cortes
ii. Francisco Pizzaro
b.
How was disease used by these crazy dudes?
To spread diseases on purpose
8. It seems like
Spanish Empire was
mostly where? Color this
the map below and
it accordingly.
the
in on
label
Slavery
9. Slaves were often _treated horribly and worked to death_ because it
was much more economical (cost-efficient) in the eyes of the plantation owners.
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Most African slaves were sent to ______plantations_____. The crops
grown most in modern day U.S. were: _____tabaco coffie cotton sugar mining and
rice_____.
10.
England
11.
___england____ and ______spain_____ were in conflict. King
Phillip and Queen Elizabeth I disagreed over ________relion__ because England was
_____protestant___ and Spain was ______catholic___________.
a.
England sent privateers (pirates) to raid Spanish ships.
b.
Spain tried to conquer England by sending the
__________spanish armada____________ (elite Spanish Navy) which failed. This
event marked the end of ____end___ control of the seas.
12.
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
a.
In 1585 _______sir walter raliegh________ sent an
expedition to North America to claim land for ________europe____.
b.
Roanoke Island is in present-day: __________north
carolina____.
c.
What does this image represent? Croatoan was carved into
the tree and no one knows what it means
13.
Jamestown Settlement
a. Roanoke was Sir Walter Raleighs last attempt to establish a colony. For
a time his failure discouraged other from planning English colonies in North
America.
b. The idea emerged again in 1606 when several groups of merchants
sought ___charters______from King James I.
c. A ____charter_____ is a written contract, issued by the government,
giving the company the right to establish a colony.
d. The Virginia Company was a____joint stock company___. Which means
that ___investors_______ bought stock, or part ownership, in the company in
return for _____a share of its future profits___.
e. The investors could potentially share the profits or share the
__ownerhip___________.
f. A modern day example of a joint-stock company would be: __apple__.

How so? Apple is looking to make a new iphone people put their
money into iphone and if it is successful the investors will make
money
g. In December, 1606 The Virginia Company sent settlers to build a
colony in North America.
h. The initial goals of the Jamestown Colony were:
i. To find gold and silver
ii. Establish trade
i. In April 1607 the ships entered the _______chesapeak____and then
sailed up a river flowing into the bay. The colonists named the river the James
and called their new settlement Jamestown.
j. There were several geographical features that made Jamestown a good
place for a colony including that it was on a ____peninsula so that it was easier
to defend fromattack_.
k. BUT there were some major drawbacks as well like:
The swampy land swarmed with mosquitoes

that carried disease.
Jamestown lacked good farmland.
Settlers only brought supplies to look for
Gold not to survive.
Settlers were mostly men and they found it
difficult to take care of themselves.
l. Why was life so difficult for the settlers of Jamestown?

Many colonists were not accustomed to hard
labor.
The settlers searched for silver and gold when
they should have been farming food.
Disease and hunger took a huge toll on the
colonists.
m. Why do you think the settlers of Jamestown starved? Who kept them
from starving some of the time?
Most settlers did not expect to cultivate food

crops; instead hoping to sustain their communities
through valuable commodities such as fur, pitch,
tar, lumber, and, more disappointingly, silver and
gold
Relied heavily on provisions shipped from England, and when those didnt arrive they
sometimes avoided starvation only because Indians provided them food
n. In Jamestown, food shortages and disease were so severe that only

______ of the colonys ______ inhabitants survived the winter of 1609-1610.
i. Some settlers went so far as to disinter corpses
and consume _the flesh of the dead__________.
o. Initial demands for labor were met by ___indentured
servants____________ from Europe.
p. What was an indentured servant?People with little future in Europe
who agreed
to sell a portion of their working lives in exchange for passage across the Atlantic and a
new start in life
q. The first slaves arrived in Virginia from Africa in about 1610,but
numbers remained small until the late 17th Century.
r. Between 1670 and 1720, _______slaves_________ increasingly replaced
__indentured servent_.
s. Any guesses why? They were more used to farming
t. The northern climate and soil was _____not favorible____ for cash crops
so slavery was not prominent there.
u. Who was the leader of Jamestown? __Captain John Smith_____
v. Although the colonists did not find any gold or silver, they did discover
another way to make money for the investors. tabaco

Compare and Contrast Slavery and Indentured Servitude using your textbook.
w. _____john rolfe___ learned to grow a type of _tabacco_ using seeds from

the West Indies.
x. Tobacco became popular and soon planters along the James River were
raising tobacco and the colony of Virginia began ___to prosper and grow____.
y. John Rolfe is also famous because he married_____phocahontis____, the
daughter of Chief Powhatan.
i. In 1612 people began ______to rent their own
plots of land______________and keep the _____proffits_________ of the crops
they grew on that land.
ii. This is a move toward ___private
ownership_________and encouraged colonists to work harder to____make
more money and increased competition________.

iii. In 1618 private ownership of land was
expanded. All the colonists who had paid their own way to America were
granted _____100____ acres of land.
iv. In order to attract more settlers, the company
gave a land grant called a ____headright_____of __50_ acres to those who
paid their own way. A settler also got 50 acres for each _____family
member___ over 15 years of age and for each servant (indentured
servant) brought to Virginia.
z. In 1619 the Virginia Company agreed to let the colonists have some
say in their___goverment__.
i. Ten towns in the colony each sent two
representatives called ___burgesses____to an assembly.
ii. The assembly had the right to make local laws
for the colony.
iii. On July 30, 1619 the ______House of
Burgesses_____met for the first time. This was important because
colonists began to govern themselves in a_____representitive _________.
aa.
In 1619 some new groups came to Jamestown:
i. 90 women were sent by the Virginia Company
to help create families in the colony.
ii. To marry a woman you had to pay _____120
pounds of _____ of ___tabacco.
iii. 20 Africans were brought on a Dutch ship.
They were sold to planters to labor in the tobacco fields.
iv. The first Africans may have come as servants
to work for a set number of years and not as slaves.
v. Until about 1640 some African laborers in
Jamestown were ______free_____and even owned ________property____.
vi. Slavery was first recognized as a law in Virginia
in the _____1660s_______.
ab.
In the early 1620s there were troubles in Jamestown. These
troubles included:
ac.In 1624 King James cancelled the charter and made Jamestown the
__first royal colony_for England in America.
14.
The Puritans/Pilgrims
a.
Puritans/Pilgrims wanted to _______seperate from_______
the Catholic Church.
b.
With a voyage arranged by the Virginia Company, the
Pilgrims set sail for America aboard the ___mayflower____and landed in
Plymouth, New England in _1620__.
c.
The Pilgrims lived on the ship for over a month before they
left. The trip took ___66___ days. They lived on the ship during the first winter.

d.
The Pilgrims landed outside the limits of the Virginia
Companys jurisdiction. For the sake of___order___, the Pilgrims signed an
agreement to ___obey laws____established for _____the good of the colony_____the Mayflower Compact. This compact help establish the idea ________selfgovernment ____and majority rule in America.
e.
After a devastating first winter, a Native American,
Squanto, acted as an intermediary between the Pilgrims and local Native
American tribes, who in turn taught the pilgrims to______plant___,
_______grow_______, and ____fish____.
f.
How would you describe the Puritan lifestyle?
g.
Connecticut:
Founded by: thomas hooker

same religion but not as strict
h.
Founded by:
baptist
i.
Founded by:
quaker
Dominant Religion:
Rhode Island:
roger williams
Dominant Religion:
Pennsylvania:
william penn
Dominant Religion:
France
1. The French mostly settled around hudson in Canada.
a.
As fisherman bartered with local people they discovered
that the fur trade was much more profitable than fishing.
b.
Explorers found a convenient entrance to the rich furproducing regions through the Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay and began the
systematic exploitation of the northern lands.
c.
What is exploitation?
2. Royal agents, adventurers, businessmen, and settlers built a chain
_____________________________________________________________________stretching into
the North American interior.
d.
_____________________________________________ people
trapped animals and exchanged the pelts for

_________________________________________________________________________________
_____ such as wool blankets, iron pots, firearms, and alcohol.
e.
During the peak of the trade, the Hudson Bay Company
supplied enough ______________________________________from Canadian trade to
manufacture ______________________________________beaver hats in England and
they still fell short of demand
f.
As trappers pushed inland looking for untapped beaver
grounds, fighting often broke out.
i.
Iroquois Indians, allied with Dutch fur traders
and provided firearms by them, attacked the Hurons living north of the
Great Lakes.
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Unit 1 Colonization 3 Empires Notes

5. A conquistador was: __Spanish explorers

Unit 1 Colonization 3 Empires Notes

Unit 1 Colonization 3 Empires Notes

Unit 1 Colonization 3 Empires Notes

k. BUT there were some major drawbacks as well like:

The swampy land swarmed with mosquitoes

l. Why was life so difficult for the settlers of Jamestown?

Unit 1 Colonization 3 Empires Notes

n. In Jamestown, food shortages and disease were so severe that only

Unit 1 Colonization 3 Empires Notes

w. ___john rolfe_ learned to grow a type of _tabacco_ using seeds from

Unit 1 Colonization 3 Empires Notes

Unit 1 Colonization 3 Empires Notes

Founded by: thomas hooker

Unit 1 Colonization 3 Empires Notes

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