European colonization

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The area in which the French colonized was known as the:

French crescent

The Spanish colonized which region:

The southern regions of modern day north America

A child who was both Spanish and Native American was was known as:

mestizo

This conflict was an issue between the Spanish and a Native American tribe:

Pueblo Revolt

What aspect contributed to the British not wanting a strong central government

previously having a king and knowing what its like when power is in the hands of the few.

In the Colonial Era, developments such as the New England town meetings and the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses represented

An early emergency of the desire for democracy.

Geographically, what areas of the New World were western Europeans interested in settling?

The coastal regions

North American Indians were receptive to the religious message of Jesuit missionaries in New France because

several factors explain the success of the Black Robes in converting Indians to Christianity, but the most important factor was probably th

Large numbers of English citizens left their homeland in the seventeenth century because of

English Calvinists, known as Puritans, became more and more convinced during the early seventeenth century that the Stuart monarchs, Jame

Which statement best characterizes the indentured servants who migrated to the Chesapeakein the seventeenth century?

Landowners in the Chesapeake wanted laborers to work their fields; and, with that in mind,they were more interested in purchasing the la

Jesuit missionaries in New France were more successful than Puritan missionaries in New England in converting Indians to Christianity for w

The Jesuits did not insist that Indians totally reject their own culture for a European lifestyle. Since the Indians did not have to go thr