Name ______________________ Class ____________________ Date __________________
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7. The great powers of Europe ––– ______________________, ___________________,
and _____________________ ––– were locked in a two-hundred-year struggle to
____________________ the ___________ ________________.
8. De Soto dreamed of leading his own expedition and finding even greater
__________________ than those found among the ______________ peoples of South
America.
9. After de Soto's ___________________ to ____________ any ___________________,
the southern woodlands were undisturbed for another 130 years.
10. Eventually, the great __________________ of Europe realized that the ____________
treasures of the New World were not silver and gold.
11. More ___________________ could be made from __________________ and
___________________ with the ___________________ (geographical areas politically
controlled by a distant country) that could be established in this _____________
_______________ that Columbus had discovered.
12. As long as these European colonies were located along the fringes or on the
____________________ of ______________ America, there was minimal contact or
___________________ among the nations.
13. But as the ________________________ began to move ________________ and the
nations started ____________________ the _____________ territory, the rivalry
___________________ (generated) a series of colonial ____________.
14. These wars would ultimately result in the ___________________ of the
_____________________ powers from North America and the emergence of the
_________________ ____________________.