Explorers on a Mission🌎
These three “G” words describe Europeans’ desire to spread religion, gain wealth, and become famous.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
This exchange moved plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This English settlement became known as the “Lost Colony” after its colonists disappeared.
What was Roanoke?
This term means allowing people to practice religions different from your own.
What is religious toleration?
In this type of government, citizens elect people to make laws and decisions for them. These people took part in the First Thanksgiving...
What is representative government?
His stories about the riches of Asia inspired Europeans to search for a faster route there. .
Who was Marco Polo?
This navigation tool helped sailors determine which direction they were traveling.
What is a compass?
Founded in Virginia in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What was Jamestown?
This religious group wanted to reform the Church of England and founded Massachusetts Bay.
Who were the Puritans?
What was the first representative legislature in the colonies? It was located at Jamestown
The Virginia House of Burgesses
In 1492, this explorer sailed west for Spain and reached the Caribbean, believing he had reached Asia.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
European diseases, including this deadly disease, killed millions of Indigenous people.
What is smallpox?
The Pilgrims founded this colony in 1620 while seeking religious freedom.
What was Plymouth?
This group, associated with Pennsylvania, believed in peace and spiritual equality; some members opposed slavery. (Peacemakers)
Who were the Quakers?
Signed by the Pilgrims, this agreement promised to make and obey laws for the common good.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
Explorers searched for this northern water route through the Americas to reach Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Spanish conquistadors conquered these two powerful Indigenous empires.
What were the Aztec and Inca empires?
Fertile soil and large harvests of grain earned this colonial region the nickname “Breadbasket.”
What were the Middle Colonies?
What were the Pilgrims?
Britain’s loose enforcement of colonial trade laws allowed colonists considerable freedom to govern themselves.
What was salutary neglect?
Unlike exploration, this process involves establishing and controlling a permanent settlement in another land.
What is colonization
This brutal part of the transatlantic slave trade forcibly transported enslaved Africans across the ocean to the Americas. .
What was the Middle Passage?
This region’s warm climate and long growing season supported plantations growing tobacco, rice, and indigo using enslaved labor.
What were the Southern Colonies?
This colonial religious revival encouraged personal religious choice and challenged established churches.
What was the First Great Awakening?
Under this economic system, colonies supplied raw materials and bought manufactured goods to enrich the mother country.
What is mercantilism?