Explorers
First people from Europe to discover North America around 500 AD
Vikings
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America
Jamestown
Name the 3 ancient native american groups in South America before the Europeans began to explorer and conquer
Mayas Aztecs and Incas
This Indian princess helped the colonists at Jamestown and showed them how to grow and process corn
Pocahontas
Gets credit for realizing North and South America was a different continent not the Orient. America is named after him.
Amerigo Vespucci
Why did the Pilgrims and Puritans want to leave England to start their own settlements in the "new world"
wanted religious freedom or to escape religious persecution
This group had a very advanced calendar that could if it was possible be accurate millions of years from now
Mayans
He was a pirate for Queen Elizabeth and helped English navy defeat the Spanish navy
Sir Francis Drake
Wanted to prove the earth was round. From Spain and sailed for Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. Thought he had found an ocean route to the Orient. Ships were the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria
Columbus
What type of farming was in the New England colonies. It only gave a family enough food to feed themselves
subsistence farming
Built their capital city on a small swampy island in a lake
Aztecs
This Indian helped the Pilgrims by showing them how to grow corn and fish. He could speak English
Squanto
Spanish Conquistadors that conquered the Aztecs and Incas
Cortes and Pizarro
Middle colonies
This man began to grow tobacco as a cash crop first in Jamestown. He also married an Indian Princess
John Rolphe
Circumnavigated the earth. He was killed before he could complete the voyage but his crew completed it.
Magellan
What were the main cash crops in the Southern Colonies
rice indigo tobacco cotton
The Aztecs believed they found the place to build their city because in a vision they were told they would find a ___________ eating a ____________ on a ________
eagle snake cactus
English Puritan Separatist that became a governor of the Plymouth colony
William Bradford