This is the idea that one ethnicity's ideas, cultures and values are better than another. For example: European better than Native American
What is ethnocentrism?
100
This Spanish explorer "found" the New World...more like he ran into it by mistake.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
What famous English explorer "saved" the Jamestown colony by instituting harsh policies such as "he who does not work shall not eat"?
Who is John Smith?
100
These people founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
Who are the Puritans?
100
He founded Pennsylvania based on equality and religious tolerance.
Who is William Penn?
200
This is the Native American religious belief that while there was one creator spirit, all natural things had a spirit.
What is animism?
200
This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec people
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
The winter of 1609-1610, when most colonists died and they even resorted to cannibalism, is known by this name.
What is the Staving Time?
200
Most of New England life revolved around this.
What is religion?
200
This colony split into two because of the two different societies that developed from its very beginning.
What is Carolina Colony?
300
The marriage of these two people helped to end hostility between Jamestown colonists and local Natives.
Who are John Rolfe and Pocahontas?
300
This French explorer explored the St. Lawrence River in Canada, paving the way for further French exploration and the creation of New France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
300
This was the result of a Royal investigation of the renewed hostilities between the Natives and the Jamestown colonists in 1624.
What is Virginia became a Royal Colony?
300
This New England colony was founded by Roger White as a place of religious toleration and for a separation of church and state.
What is Rhode Island?
300
These were the persecuted religious sect who made up a large portion of Pennsylvania's population.
Who are the Quakers?
400
Name one of the two colonial founders about whom we learned who purchased their land from Native Americans.
Who are Roger Williams or William Penn?
400
This French explorer founded Quebec, which became the capital of New France.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
400
Maryland was founded as a refuge for these persecuted people.
Who are Catholics?
400
These two people were banned from Massachusetts Bay Colony because they were considered heretics.
Who are Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams?
400
This was the Dutch colony that became New York and New Jersey.
What is New Netherland?
500
These two conflicts between New England colonists and local Native Americans divided the two groups causing great mistrust of the English by the Natives.
What are Pequot War and King Philip's War?
500
This French explorer traveled the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico and named the area around the Mississippi as "Louisiana".
Who is Rene-Robert de la Salle?
500
Most of these people were young men in their early to mid-twenties and made up a very large portion of the Chesapeake population.
Who are indentured servants?
500
The primary difference between Puritans and Pilgrims (belief).
What is that Puritans wanted to reform the Anglican Church, but Pilgrims believed it was too corrupt to be saved and wanted to separate?
500
This colony was created as a place for debtors from England to "start over".