Social Studies Chapter 7 Study Guide



Social Studies Chapter 7 Study Guide

The Fight for a Continent

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Due Date: _________ You may turn in your completed study guide ahead of the scheduled due date. We will review with study guide in class as well as play a game. Use this study guide to assist you in preparing for the chapter test. Know all vocabulary! Study the PowerPoint from class.

Answer the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper. Staple the answers to the back of this page.

1. Why did Spanish leaders want to establish a colony in Florida?

2. Why did Spain send war ships rather than sailing ships to Florida?

3. Describe some of the early Spanish colonies in New Mexico.

4. How did Spanish settlers solve the problem of New Mexico being unsuitable for farming or mining?

5. What were the causes and effects of the Pueblo Revolt?

6. What was the purpose of El Camino Real?

7. Give examples of how Native Americans helped the French.

8. Using Marquette’s journal, we can tell the Native Americans felt in what way about the French?

9. What reasons did the French have for exploring the Mississippi River?

10. How did La Salle’s explorations lead the expansion of New France?

11. What does the location of New Orleans have to do with its success as a city?

12. What was the cause of conflict over land between the British, French, and Native Americans?

13. Why did Washington bring soldiers to the Ohio River Valley in March of 1754?

14. How were the British able to win the French and Indian War?

15. What are the major effects of the French and Indian War?

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