New World to Explore
What year did Columbus reach San Salvador?
1492
What event is marked as making the English Reformation official?
Henry VIII break with the Catholic Church
What was the name of the system where each was entitled to receive food and supplies according to his need?
Common-store system
What year did the Pilgrims step ashore the New World?
1620
What Colony was established to create a refuge where debtors could work and pay off their debts?
Georgia
What revived interest in trade with Europe?
the Crusades
Who made the first Spanish landing on the mainland of North America?
Juan Ponce de Leon
What document helped prepare England for limited representative government?
Magna Carta
What is the name of the system where the government leaves citizens free to own businesses and make living dependent on their own enterprise?
Free-Enterprise
Squanto
Which colony set an important precedent for government with a constitution by the people and for the people?
Connecticut
What colony was a haven for English Catholics?
Maryland
Who protested the false doctrines of the church by nailing his Ninety-five theses to the church door?
Martin Luther
What was the first permanent European settlement in the present-day United States?
St. Augustine
What was the first permanent French settlement in the new world?
Quebec
Who was the first modern explorer to set foot on the mainland of North America?
John Cabot
With the establishment of the House of Burgesses, Jamestown set a precedent for what?
Representative Government
The Mayflower Compact set an important precedent for what type of government?
Representative
Who served as the first governor of the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay?
John Winthrop
New York
Who became the first European to travel the length of Asia?
Marco Polo
Who was first to sight the Pacific Ocean?
Vasco de Balboa
Who is considered the father of New France?
Samuel de Champlain
Who was the first Englishman to sail around the world?
Sir Francis Drake
Who marched into Jamestown and burned it?
Nathaniel Bacon
What did the Pilgrims name where they landed?
New Plymouth
What year was the first institution of higher learning in America started? What was its name?
1636 - Harvard
What is a colony granted to individual proprietors or owners?
Proprietary Colony
Who sponsored Columbus's expedition?
Spain
Who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico?
Hernando Cortes
Who established the first permanent French settlement in the New World?
Samuel de Champlain
Who sent an expedition to establish a colony on Roanoke Island?
Sir Walter Raleigh
What event indicated that colonists expected their government to protect its citizens?
Bacon's Rebellion
Who was Plymouth's first governor?
John Carver
What set a precedent for voluntary union of the colonies?
New England Confederation
Philadelphia means city of what?
What year was the Movable-Type Printing press invented? Who invented it?
1440 - Johann Gutenberg
What year was the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
1588
Who led an expedition that explored the St. Lawrence River?
Jacque Cartier
What became the first permanent English settlement in the New World?
Jamestown
Who carried on a successful work among the Wampanoag of Martha's Vineyard Island
Thomas Mayhew
Who wrote the History of the Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford
Who founded the settlement of Providence, Rhode Island?
What other colony did William Penn establish because he wanted Pennsylvania to have access to Atlantic Ocean?
Delaware
Who is credited with realizing that Columbus had explored a whole new continent?
Amerigo Vespucci
Who became the first European to discover the Grand Canyon in Arizona?
Francisco Corando
Who led an expedition which explored the central Mississippi River? (two men)
Jacques Marquette & Louis Jolliet
Who translated the Bible inot the Algonquian tongue?
John Eliot
Who was the pastor of the separatists of Leydan?
John Robinson
Who founded Hartford, Connecticut?
Thomas Hooker
William Penn established Pennsylvania as a haven for who?
Quakers