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| Why did the Spanish government create the Spanish borderlands north of New Spain? | protect its gold and silver mines |
| Why did the Spanish build presidios? | to protect settlers |
| What is the oldest permanent European settlement in the United States? | St. Augustine |
| How did Spanish settlements in the borderlands change the lives of the Indians living there? | The Indians learned how to tame horses and raise sheep |
| Why was life hard for the Indians who lived at the Spanish missions? | they had to give up their religious traditions |
| Why did King Louis XIV make New France a royal colony? | He wanted to rebuild his hold in North America after the fur trade was nearly destroyed |
| What did Jacques Marquette and Louis Jliet hope the Mississippi River would help them find? | a route to Asia |
| Who claimed the area known as Louisiana for the French? | Sieur de La Salle |
| Who does the ownership belong to in a proprietary colony? | one person |
| Why did the Virginia Comp[any of London found the Jamestown colony? | to be a trading post to make a profit for the company |
| What was the most important cash crop in Virginia and Maryland? | tobacco |
| Why did the Puritans found their colony in Massachusetts? | to practice their religion |
| What was the Fundamental Orders? | the first written system of government in North America |
| Who did William Penn establish Pennsylvania as a refuge for? | Quakers |
