Study Guide
Social Studies Chapter 5
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Social Studies Chapter 5 |
| 1. Life was hard for the Indians who
lived at Spanish missions because they had to give up their religion and
were often forced to work.
2. The Spanish government created the Spanish borderlands north of New Spain to protect their gold and silver mines. 3. Some of the advantages that Spanish borderland settlements brought to Indians that lived there were
4. The oldest permanent European settlement in the United States is St. Augustine. 5. The Spanish built presidios to protect settlers. 6. King Louis XIV made New France a royal colony because he wanted to rebuild his stronghold in N. America after the fur trade was nearly destroyed. 7. Sieur de LaSalle claimed Louisiana for the French. 8. The most important cash crop in Virginia and Maryland was tobacco. 9. When Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet went looking for the Mississippi River they hoped the river would help them find the Northwest Passage, (a route to Asia). 10. William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers. 11. The Virginia Company founded the colony of Jamestown to build a trading post and make a profit. 12. The Fundamental Orders adopted by the Connecticut colony was the first written system of government in North America. 13. The French king made Louisiana a proprietary colony because he wanted the colony too operate like a business. 14. The Puritans founded their colony in Massachusetts to practice their religion.
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