-
Whos Juan Ponce de Leon?
first spanish explorer to reach mainland of North America
-
Hernan Cortes?
conqueror of the Aztec Empire in Mexico
-
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
explorer of the America Southwest
-
Missionary?
church members who teach and convert others to Christianity
-
Pope?
leader of the Pueblo Revolt against the Spanish
-
Sir Francis Drake?
English naval captain who raided Spanish ships and costal towns
-
Who did not accept the Treaty of Tordesillas?
England. Holand, and France
-
What groups did the spanish enslave or try to enslave?
Native Americans and Africans
-
What did Henry Hudson found?
Hudson River and he worked for the Dutch
-
Who was Jacques Marquette?
a French priest and explorer that explored the North 1/2 of Mississippi River and Great Lakes
-
Joint Stock Company?
business in which people pool their money hoping to make a profit
-
John Smith?
a leader of the Jamestown Colony
-
Powhatan?
Native American leader in whose territory Jamestown was settled
-
Pocahontas?
Powhatans daughter who helped keep PEACE between settlers and Powhatan
-
John Rolfe?
first tabacco grower in Virginia ; married Pocahontas
-
Headright?
50-acre grant of land that colonists could obtain in various ways
-
House of Burgesses?
Virginias assembly that was Americans First Legislature
-
Indentured Servant?
people who worked for atleast 7 years in return of food ,shelter and voyage to America
-
Bacons Rebellion?
Virginia revolt that resulted from differing views on the westward into land reserved for Native americans
-
Where was Englands first colony?
Roanoke (P.D Virginia)
-
What was wrong with the site of Jamestown Colony?
it was low and swampy, settlers died of malaria or dyentery
-
What was 'the starving time' ?
When the Powhatans attacked colonists livestock and kept them from hunting
-
What was the first crop to make money in Virginia ?
Tabacco
-
What was Virginia offering?
Headrights
-
Which year were the first enslaved Africans brought to the colony?
1619
-
Purtians?
people who wanted to 'purify' or reform the Church of England
-
William Bradford?
leader of the pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower
-
Mayflower Compact?
rules that the Pilgrims wrote tokeep order in the new settlement
-
John Winthrop?
leader of Massachuetts Bay colony
-
Roger Williams?
Kicked out of Massachuetts and Founded Provindence , Rhode Island
-
Anne Hutchinson?
women thrown out of Massachuetts for saying people could be spiritual without the help of Ministers
-
Royal Colony?
colony under direct control of the king
-
Pequot War?
1637 conflict over land and in the Connecticut River Valley
-
King Philips war?
1675 conflict between Native Americans and settlers; left southern New England open to white settlers
-
Where were the Pilgrims headed for ? and where did they Land?
Headed to New world , Landed in Massachuetts
-
The two colonies formed by the Puritans?
Plymouth Colony and the Massachuetts Bay Colony
-
How did the Puritans feel about religions freedom of peoplewho disagreed with them?
not going to put upwith it
-
What did Anne Hutchinson believe?
people did not need a Minister teaching to be spirtual
-
Why did the Pequot war and King Philips War happen?
settlers started taking more land
-
Proprietary Colony?
grants of land to the loyal friends of the king
-
James Oglethorpe?
English general who started the colony of georgia
-
Quaker?
member of a christian group that believed in equality of men and women and direct, personal communication with god
-
William Penn?
Quaker who started the colony of pennyslvania
-
Lord Baltimore?
Catholic who started the colony of Maryland
-
Toleraction Act?
law passed by Maryland colonial assembly giving all christians the right to practice their religion
-
Why did Charles II give grants of land to his friends?
He owed them money
-
What were the most important parts in the Southern part of Carolina?
Rice and Indigo
-
How were North and South Carolin made?
Tensions between the area and seven men returned the land back to the king so he divided that which is now South and North Carolina
-
What were the beliefs heldby the Quakers?
they believed in direct, personalcommunication with god. they believed in equlaity of all men and women. they also refused to fight in wars
-
Where did the Quakers settle ?
Pennyslavania
-
What form of christianity did the founders of Maryland practice?
Religion
-
Led a group that landed inMexico in 1519 and soon thereafter conquered the Aztecs?
Hernan Cortez
-
Became leader of Jamestown?
John Smith
-
Sought landin American to be settled by Catholics?
Lord Baltimore
-
Built the ''City of Brotherly Love'' in the colony he founded?
William Penn
-
Headed the group of pilgims who came to america on the Mayflower?
William Bradford
-
Proposed starting new colony for debtors and founded the city of Savannah , Georgia?
James Oglethorpe
-
Became govenor of Puerto rico and later left to search the ''fountain of youth''?
Juan Ponce de Leon
-
Paleo Indians?
Hunter gatherers , before Columbus
-
Mound builders?
bury a dead inside the mound; Northeast (Mississippi)
-
-
Bering Strait?
land bridge between Asia and alaska where natives came from
-
Indigenous?
Native , Born there
-
Matriarchal leadership
Girls inherit everything
-
Christopher Columbus?
sailed the ocean to find Asia
-
-
Columbian Exchange?
exchange with Europe and Indians (food , animal and disease)
-
Iroquios Confederacy?
Multiple tribes that got together and fought the Puritans
-
Colonization?
take land from another country and put your people there
-
Push/Pull Factors?
Factories that push people out or pull people in
-
Catholics located?
Rhode Island
-
Protestants?
anybody thats not catholic
-
-
Creoles?
Born in the Colonies
|
|
