Reasons for Exploration and Early Colonization

Allowing people to practice different religions freely without punnishment

• Religious freedom

• Regligious tolerence

• Religious authority

• None of these

To create settlements in a new land and control the area

• Investigating

• Settling

• Exploration

• Colonize/Colonization

Traveling to new area to learn about them or claim them

• Exploration

• Settling

• Exploration

• Colonize/Colonization

When too many people live in one area leading to the need to move elsewhere

• Exploration

• Overpopulation

• Exploration

• Colonize/Colonization

The parts of North America controlled and settled by Britian

• Asia

• British Colonial North America

• India

• Mexico

The continent where many European countires explored and build colonies

• Asia

• North America

• India

• Spanish Spain

An area in North America where the French traded furs and built relationships with Native Americans

• Great Lakes Region

• Southwest Region

• New England

• Spanish Spain

A country that created colonies in areas like Florida, Texas and the Southwest

• Asia

• North America

• India

• Spanish Spain

A continent that many European explorers wanted to reach for trade and spices

• Asia

• North America

• Africa

• South America

(a)   includes animal skins used for clothing and trade, especially important to French colonists.