European Expansion Test

European countries, including __________________, fought to claim new lands in America and the riches they might have.

• Canada, Mexico, and Argentina

• Spain, Turkey, and Japan

• Spain, England, and France

• Russia, India, and France

Which country claimed big areas of land, including Mexico and the southwestern portion of the future United States?

• Mexico

• Spain

• England

• France

Most French settlers were more interested in __________________________ than in farming or establishing large settlements.

• making friends

• buying land

• finding gold

• hunting and trading furs

What trip did the English base their claim to North America on?

• John Cabot's 1497 trip

• John Smith's 1501 trip

• Christopher Columbus's 1490 trip

• John Rolfe's 1479 trip

What was the name of the first English colony?

• West Virginia

• Louisiana

• Jamestown

• New Netherland

What was the name of the first Dutch colony?

• New Haven

• New Netherland

• New York

• New Jersey

What did the English rename New Netherland?

• New York

• Newfoundland

• New Mexico

• New Orleans

For Native Americans, the arrival of Europeans brought many changes, including

• longhouses

• new televisions

• new elk

• new technology and new ideas

The Spanish also brought ______________ to the Americas to plant and harvest crops

• plows

• their friends

• enslaved Africans

• paid workers

Europeans brought deadly ________ that killed many Native Americans.