Spain's Empire in the Americas
Name of the group of Spanish explorers who came to the Americas looking for Gold
What is Conquistador
Early leader of the Jamestown Colony, left due to burns from gunpowder explosion
Who is John Smith?
Church members who wanted to reform, or "purify" the Church of England
Who are the Puritans?
Colony established by the Quakers
What is Pennsylvania?
Settlers seeking a place to practice their religion came to Pennsylvania because of their promotion of this Quaker idea.
What is religious tolerance?
Native American priest who was punished for practicing his rituals held a rebellion against the Spanish
Who is Popé
John Rolfe Saved the Jamestown colony when he brought this crop to cultivate
Tobacco
The colony was founded by a small group of families that arrived in North America in 1620 and were escaping persecution because of their religious beliefs.
What is Plymouth Colony?
Name of the colony that later became New York
What is New Netherland?
The native tribe that the colonists in Jamestown encountered
Who are Powhatans?
Queme Los Barcos! was the phrase he used to motivate (force) his men to continue on their mission.
Who is Hernando Cortez?
Business in which investors pool their wealth to help fund a colony
What is a joint stock company?
Woman banished from New England for saying that worshippers do not need ministers or church.
Who is Anne Hutchinson
Settlers that originally populated New Netherlands
Who are the Dutch?
Someone who works for 4-7 years in order to pay off a debt
What is an Indentured Servant?
The children born from marriages between peninsulares and native women were called _______ .
What is mestizo?
System in which people that paid for their voyage to America and received 50 acres of land
What is headright system?
He felt that English settlers had no rightful claim to Native American land and that people shouldn't be punished for their religious beliefs.
Who is Roger Williams?
This made the New Netherland colony attractive to European settlers.
What is fur?
He founded what is now known as Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
The exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology that transformed European and Native American ways of life in the 1400s and 1500s.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A period of time in 1609 that involved a severe winter, food shortages, and the loss of over 500 English settlers.
What is the "starving time"?
The current name of the Plymouth colony.
What is Massachusettes?
The city of brotherly love.
What is Philadelphia?
"He who shall not work ______!" (complete the quote)
What is "shall not eat"!