US History Topic 2

Spain set up a formal system to rule its new colonies. The Laws of the Indies established three kinds of settlements: __________, __________, and __________.

• Pueblos, Presidios, Missions
• Charters, Pueblos, Missions

• Pueblos, Ports, Missions

• Peninsulares

Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island from local Indians and called it New Amsterdam. The entire colony was called New Netherland which is now known as __________.

• New York
• Delaware

• Maryland

• New Jersey

Indians were kept in poverty for hundreds of years. Land grants called __________ let settlers demand labor or taxes from American Indians.

• Encomiendas
• Peninsulares

• Presidios

• Conquistadors

European nations wanted to find a __________, a waterway through or around North America.

• Northwest Passage
• Southwest Passage

• Middle Passage

• Southern Passage

In 1605, Samuel de Champlain founded __________, the first permanent French settlement in North America.

• Port Royal
• Jamestown

• Maryland

• Pennsylvania

In 1607, colonists sailed into Chesapeake Bay and built __________, England’s first lasting settlement in North America.

• Jamestown
• Maryland

• Port Royal

• Pennsylvania

__________ or government in which voters elect people to make laws for them.

• Representative Government
• Presidios

• Quaker

• Act of Toleration

__________ or mistreated because of their religious beliefs.

• Quaker
• Persecuted
• Charter
• Libel

The __________ were known as Separatists—they wanted to separate from the Church of England. Some Separatists settled in the Netherlands to practice Christianity in their own way.

• Puritans
• Quakers
• Pilgrims
• Conquistadors

__________ the first document in which colonists pledged to form a united government. The group called their new settlement Plymouth.

• Charter
• Act of Toleration
• Fundamental Orders
• Mayflower Compact