Early Exploration
What were Christopher Columbus's voyages important for?
Began European exploration of the Western Hemisphere and opened trade and settlement
The famously "Lost Colony" of Roanoke was known for this carved clue found at the site.
What is CROATOAN?
James Oglethorpe founded Georgia originally for these two main reasons.
What are to create a colony for debtors and act as a buffer against Spanish Florida?
What was the Mayflower Compact?
This document was significant because it created an agreement for self-government among the Pilgrims and other settlers.
Peter Minuit is known for this famous purchase and founding this colony (New York).
What is purchasing Manhattan Island and founding New Amsterdam?
This three-part slogan best summarizes the motive of many Spanish expeditions in the Americas.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
This was the key product, cultivated by John Rolfe, that helped Jamestown survive and begin to profit.
What is tobacco cultivation?
The expansion of slavery in southern South Carolina was most caused by this factor.
What were large plantations growing rice and indigo that required many laborers and access to deep-water ports for trade?
Roger Williams left Massachusetts Bay and founded Providence primarily for this reason.
What was arguing for religious freedom and that people should not be punished for different beliefs?
The early settlers of this colony were primarily Swedes and Finns, and it was later known as the "lower three counties" of Pennsylvania.
What is Delaware?
What are patents?
Grants of land and the belief that explorers could claim resources and people with few consequences often resulted from this issued by European monarchs.
This type of company, funded by investors, established the profitable Jamestown colony.
What was a Joint venture company / The Virginia Company?
William Penn's treatment of Indigenous Peoples differed from many others because he did this.
What was paying Indigenous Peoples for land to maintain peaceful relations and founding Philadelphia for religious tolerance?
Who were indentured servants?
These people usually agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage and room.