midterm exam-vus2
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- Which nationality settled in Florida during colonial era?
- Spanish
- Why did the French have better relations with the Native Americans than the English?
- The French traded with the Native Americans
- Why did the trans-Atlantic slave trade take hold in the New World?
- growth of plantations in Caribbean and South
- Where was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
- Jamestown
- What happened when Spanish settlers took the Indians' natural resources?
- War
- Why did the Native Americans suffer after European arrival?
- diseases, smallpox, measles, influenza
- in 1619, VA House of Burgesses became first colonial what?
- elected representative body
- "Covenant community" that Pilgrims formed was based on what?
- Mayflower Compact
- Who were English noblemen who received large land grants in eastern VA from King of England?
- cavaliers
- Who arrived in Jamestown in 1619 to serve as a new labor force?
- Africans
- Which region did the Puritans settle while seeking religions freedom from the church in England?
- New England