Answer: b. Florida was the first region in the present-day continental United States that Spain colonized.
Explanation:
Florida or Spanish Florida as it was known, was the first territory claimed by a European power in North America.
It was much larger than the present state of Florida and included parts of present day Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Established by Juan Ponce de León for the Spanish crown, Spain found it particularly difficult as well as too unattractive to maintain a significant presence which led to the territory continually shrinking until it's authority in Florida barely extended out of the various ports that were established.
It prevented slaves from learning how to read and write. It also made it scary for them to escape because they allowed slave owners to whip them or hang them for trying to escape or committing small or big crimes.
False. North America was inhabited by many different Native American tribes.
A Native American uses a rifle to hunt buffalo (B). Before the Columbian Exchange, no modern weapons reached the Americas. Natives hunted with the tools and techniques they had been using for hundreds of years.
