English Explorers
From Genoa in Italy, he was the first explorer sent by England to find a passage to India.
Who was John Cabot?
Raleigh's first colony. The first settlers disappeared into the wilderness.
What is Roanoke?
The first English child born in the New World?
Who was Virginia Dare?
The doctrine that kings receive absolute power over their kingdoms from God and are subject to no earthly authority.
What is the Divine Right of kings?
Louis XIV was called this.
What was the Sun King?
A privateer (pirate) sent by Queen Elizabeth to raid Spanish ships and territories.
Who was Sir Francis Drake?
The first successful English colony.
What is Jamestown?
She saved the life of Captain John Smith and married John Rolfe.
Who was Pocahontas?
This king dissolved the English parliament and was eventually executed.
Who was Charles I?
"L'etat c'est moi" means this.
What is "I am the State?"
Queen Elizabeth's favorite, he was given the land in America called Virginia.
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?
This religious group founded the colony of Plymouth and celebrated the first Thanksgiving.
Who were the Pilgrims or "The Saints".
The Indian who introduced the Pilgrims at Plymouth to the chief of the Wampanoag tribe.
Who was Samoset?
He was the leader of the Parliamentary army and became the Lord Protector (dictator) of England after the execution of Charles I.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
This bishop believed in the Divine Right of Kings and that the king of France was independent of the influence of the Pope.
Who was Bishop Bossuet?
The name of Drake's ship.
What was the Golden Hind?
The colony founded by Sir George Calvert, a Catholic.
What is Maryland?
John Rolfe brought this valuable crop to Jamestown.
What was tobacco?
The name of the "revolution" in which Parliament invited William and Mary to take the throne from James II.
What was the "Glorious Revolution"?
Louis XIV's hugely expensive and lavish palace outside of Paris.
What is Versailles?
The name Sir Francis Drake gave to the lands he discovered in what is now California.
What is "New Albion"?
The colony was founded by William Penn, a Quaker.
What is Pennsylvania?
On June 24, 1675, this chief of the Wampanoag tribe, led his warriors in an attack on the English settlers in Massachusetts.
Who was Metacom or King Philip?
The names of the two English political parties. One supported royal power and were "High Church". The other favored Parliament and were Puritans.
What were the Tories and the Whigs?
After the War of the Spanish Succession, he became king of Spain.
Philip of Anjou/ Philip V