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| Why did the Spanish government create the Spanish borderlands north of Spain? | To preotect it's 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. |
| When Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet went looking for the Mississippi River, what did they hope they would find? | A route to Asia. |
| Who claimed the area known as Louisiana fir the French? | Sieur de La Salle |
| Why did the French King make Louisiana a proprietary colony? | He wanted one person to own and rule the colony. |
| Why did the Puritans found their colony in Massachusetts? | To practice their religion. |
| What was the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut? | The first written system of government in North America. |
| Who did William Penn establish Pennsylvania as a refuge for? | Quakers |
| Why did the Virginia Company of London found the Jamestown colony? | It was to be a trading post to make a profit for the company. |
| What was the most important cash crop in Virginia and Maryland? | Tobacco |
| What was St. Augustine? | The oldest permanent European settlement in the United States. |
| Who was John Law? | The leader of Louisiana when it was a proprietary colony. |
| What does portage mean? | Carrying canoes or boats around waterfalls. |
| What is a charter? | Official approval to take a certain action. |
| Who was James Oglethorpe? | The Englishman who settled the colony of Georgia, |
| Why were there no plantations in Georgia before 1870? | The charter did not allow traders to bring slaves to the colony. |
| What caused the colony of Georgia to set up plantations after 1750? | The law was changed to allow slavery. |
