Question

What was a primary challenge faced by the Jamestown colonists during the first few years?

They chose an unsecure location, making it easy for the Spanish to find them.

They lacked knowledge about the land and how to use their environment to survive.

They faced fierce trading competition from the French and Dutch.

All of the crops they grew had to be shipped back to King James in England.

Answer 1

What was a primary challenge faced by the Jamestown colonists during the first few years?

They chose an unsecure location, making it easy for the Spanish to find them.

They lacked knowledge about the land and how to use their environment to survive.

They faced fierce trading competition from the French and Dutch.

All of the crops they grew had to be shipped back to King James in England.

Answer 2

France took the lead in colonizing the Upper Midwest region. From the early sixteenth century on, French soldiers, missionaries and fur traders left their slight mark upon the St. Lawrence valley, the upper Great Lakes and points west. For the early French explorers, the more continent they discovered the more their hopes were frustrated. They had hoped that the vast St. Lawrence-Great Lakes waterway was part of a Northwest Passage to the wealth of the Orient. The French presence was asserted by a network of forts, trading posts and missions dotting the lake and river routes traversing the continental interior.

Answer 3

Based on your text and this reading, why was land near water so important for French settlers?

Answer 4

Based on your text and this reading, why was land near water so important for French settlers?

Settlers relied on water routes for transportation.

Settlers used water routes to hunt for food. Settlers used water routes to hunt for food.

Settlers depended on water from rivers and lakes for their crops.

Settlers continued to look for a Northwest Passage across the continent.

Answer 5

What was one major similarity that Spanish, Dutch, French, and English settlements had in common relative to the relations with Native Americans?

Answer 6

What was one major similarity that Spanish, Dutch, French, and English settlements had in common relative to the relations with Native Americans?
All relied on Native Americans for fur trading.

All respected their way of life and religious beliefs.

All established missions where Native Americans could live and work.

All believed they were superior to Native Americans.

Answer 7

Which of the following were effects of Pizarro’s and Cortes’s defeat of Native Americans? Select all that apply.

settlement and colonization of Florida under Spanish rule

inspiration for other Europeans to begin explorations and settlement

settlement and colonization in the Southwest under Spanish rule

fighting between the Spanish and the French

Answer 8

only 2 answers

Answer 9

settlement and colonization of Florida under Spanish rule settlement and colonization of Florida under Spanish rule inspiration for other Europeans to begin explorations and settlement inspiration for other Europeans to begin explorations and settlement settlement and colonization in the Southwest under Spanish rule settlement and colonization in the Southwest under Spanish rule fighting between the Spanish and the French