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Chapter 2 Study Questions

1. What were some of the reasons the European explorers had such a low opinion of the Native American population of the New World?

2. What was the single greatest cause of death among Native American populations after contact with Europeans? Why?

3. What was De Soto looking for?

4. Describe the different approaches to North American colonization taken by the British, the French, and the Spanish.

5. What were some good and bad points about the location of Arkansas Post? What happened as a result of the problems?

6. How did Great Britain manage to win in the European struggle for domination of North America?

7. How did the British lose the American colony? Why is Canada a separate country from the United States?

8. Whose side was Arkansas on during the American Revolution and why?

9. How did Arkansas become part of the United States?

= 10. The land that became the state of Arkansas belonged to three different groups or nations. Name the three. =