STAAR BLITZ Exploration and Colonization

What group build missions and claimed Texas, Florida, and California?

• Pilgrims

• Spain

• France

• America

What group made money from harvesting fur?

• Pilgrims

• Spain

• France

• America

What group wrote the Mayflower Compact?

• Pilgrims

• Spain

• France

• America

What group founded Maryland as a religious refuge?

• Pilgrims

• Catholics

• Puritans

• French

Identify the colony that matches correctly the reason it was founded.

• Maryland - Political reasons

• Pennsylvania - Economic reason

• Virginia - Economic reasons

• Georgia - Religious reasons

Acquire wealth for the mother country relates to...

• God

• Gold

• Glory

Spreading Christianity to Native relates to

• God

• Gold

• Glory

Expanding Empires by claiming new territory relates to...

• God

• Gold

• Glory

Which factor most contributed to the creation of the following documents?

The Mayflower Compact

The charter for the Virginia House of Burgessess

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• The opportunity for trade with the American Indians

• The distance of the colonies from Great Britain

• The doctrine of the Church of England

• The economic system of mercantilism

What was a major reason for the transatlantic slave trade?

• The economic demands of the plantation system

• The construction needs of the railroad

• Increased textile manufacturing in the south

• Increased westward migration