Building the First Colonies (Lesson 1 & 2)

Multiple countries were competing with each other to win control of as much of the Americas as possible.

• True
• False

What is a land ruled by another country?

In what year was the colony of New Spain established in what is now the country of Mexico.

What was found in the Americas that caused more and more settlers to come?

• gold

• pandas

• silver

• corn

Many settlers came to get rich while others started large farms known as ____________.

• fertile ground

• work fields

• country

• plantations

Both Spain and Portugal needed many workers to grow crops and to mine gold and silver, so who did they force into slavery (which is the practice of holding people against their will and making them work without pay)?

• poor men

• children

• Native Americans

• British troops

What was one of the ways Native Americans in slavery did NOT die?

• the work they did

• diseases

• hunger

• war

What happened to the Native Americans that caused colonists to begin capturing Africans to become enslaved workers?

Spanish soldiers settled in _______________, which became the first permanent, or long-lasting, European settlement in what is now the United States.

• Outer Banks, North Carolina

• Richmond, Virginia

• Roanoke, Virginia

• St. Augustine, Florida

The Spanish king sent missionaries to convert Native Americans to ___________.

• Christianity

• Catholicism

• Judaism

• Buddhism