Documents and Laws
Geography
Important Men
People and Groups
Events
100
This papal document proclaimed that the Indians were "real men" and forbade their enslavement.
What is the bull issued by Pope Paul III in 1537?
100
The first settlement in the English colony of Virginia, which was ultimately "lost".
What is the colony of Roanoke?
100
He established the first settlement of Quebec, and the fur trade that this area became known for.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
100
This religious group sought to reform and "purify" the Church of England from all traces of Catholicism, and eventually followed another closely related religious group to the New World.
Who are the Puritans?
100
This ultimately lead to the decline of all Indian populations in the New World after the coming of the Europeans.
What is disease?
200
This was an agreement, or covenant, between a group of English settlers that bound them to each other, and played the grounds for basic civil governance.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
Padre Eusebio Kino's explorations proved this "island" was actually a peninsula.
What is Baja California?
200
He founded the mission system in Alta California, and established the first 9 missions there.
Who is Fray Junipero Serra?
200
Known in England as "Separatists" because they sought to separate from the Church of England (even as far as the New World), this religious group condemned most pleasures and vanities and established practices and doctrines they considered to be "pure"--not something they could do within the Church of England.
What are the "Saints"?
200
This Indian nation became serious enemies of France after they were defeated by the French (and other Indians) in battle.
Who are the Iroquois?
300
This system, developed by the Dutch government, granted land to a man if he could fund the passage of 50 colonists to come and settle in America.
What is the patroon system?
300
This area is, today, northern Sonora in Mexico and southern Arizona in the US.
What is the Pimeria Alta?
300
They treated the Indians like children, and wanted to give them training and education to run the place themselves, eventually.
Who are the California missionaries?
300
By any other name, a pirate; Sir Francis Drake is an (English) example of these crown-supported raiders.
What is a privateer?
300
While ultimately unsuccessful, this meeting, led by Benjamin Franklin, was the first major step towards uniting the colonies, and passed the first plan that would have given significant power to the American colonists to govern themselves.
What is the Albany Congress?
400
Approved by Lord Baltimore and the Maryland colonial government, it guaranteed the free exercise of religion (for Christians), making Maryland the most religiously-tolerant of the American colonies.
What is the Toleration Act?
400
This American colony was initially established as a refuge for debtors.
What is Georgia?
400
This French explorer is credited with discovering the lands that would be named Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
400
This religious group, which believed in the authority of the light of the Holy Spirit's presence in a person's soul (as opposed to the Church), settled the colony of Pennsylvania.
Who are the Quakers?
400
This American branch of the War of Spanish Succession proved that the English colonies in America could demonstrate independence.
What is Queen Anne's War?
500
Adopted by Massachusetts in 1641, this significant document ensured certain rights for colonists (including free elections, trial by jury, and the right not to be taxed without representation.
What is the Massachusetts Body of Liberties?
500
This colony was established by the Puritans, who followed the Saints to the New World when England became more intolerant of their efforts to "purify" the Church of England from within.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
500
He established missions in the Pimeria Alta region, and turned the desert into a "garden".
Who is Padre Eusebio Kino?
500
He saved the settlement of Jamestown by implementing a policy of hard work, for everyone.
Who is John Smith?
500
This war began as a conflict between England and Spain (with the humiliation of an unfortunate English smuggler as it's start), and merged with the European War of Austrian Succession, which brought the French into the fight against the English, and became known by the American colonists as King George's War.
What is the War of Jenkins' Ear?