On the Water
skilled sailors, and they were the first Europeans to reach North America
Who are the Vikings?
people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country
What are immigrants?
protested the practices of the Catholic Church
Who was Martin Luther?
document giving permission to start a colony
What is a Charter?
colonists who reached America by working for free for other people who had paid for their journeys
What was indentured servants?
used triangular sails; lighter and faster than longships
What are Caravels?
a Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe
Who was Pocahontas?
Spanish soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas
Who were Conquistadors?
laws to control slaves
What were slave codes?
helped spread the ideas of the Reformation.
What is the printing press?
taught navigation but never sailed
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
landed in the Bahamas, thought it was Asia
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Won from the Dutch; became New York
What was New Amsterdam?
it made limiting the religious rights of Christians a crime
What was the Toleration act of 1649?
policy in which Britain interfered very little in colonial affairs
What was salutary neglect?
sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and landed in India
Who was Vasco da Gama?
a Protestant group that wanted to reform the Church of England
Who were the Puritans?
an uprising against high taxes
What was Bacon’s Rebellion?
a legal contract male passengers signed agreeing to have fair laws to protect the general good
What was the Mayflower Compact?
religious group that believed in the equality of all; supported nonviolence
Who where the Quakers (Society of Friends) ?
sailed from Norway landed in present-day Canada after a storm
Who was Leif Eriksson?
a separatist group that cut ties with the Church of England
Who were the Pilgrams?
Spain conquered the Aztecs, Incas and more and built a vast empire
What was New Spain?
assembly in which colonists decided issues and made laws
What was a town meeting?
gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or make them work
What was the encomienda system?