| A | B |
| wanted to rebuild his hold in North America after the fur trade was nearly destroyed | King Louis XIV |
| hoped to lead French to Mississippi and a Northwest passage from North America to Asia | Jacques Marquette & Louis Joliet |
| claimed area known as Louisiana for French | Sieur de la Salle |
| made Pennsylvania a refuge for Quakers | William Penn |
| created to help protect gold and silver mines | Spanish Borderlands |
| built to protect Spanish settlers | Spanish Presidios |
| Virginia & Marylands most important cash crop | Tobacco |
| first written system of government | Fundamental Orders |
| oldest permanent European settlement | St. Augustine |
| why the Puritans started a colony in Massachusetts | To practice their religion |