The Virginia Company, inspired by Cortes and the Spanish conquests, hoped to find what in the New World?
Gold (and silver)
100
In 1588 this large fleet of boats was defeated by the English (and the weather).
Spanish Armada
100
The group of Indians living nearby at Jamestown is known to us today as what?
Powhatan Confederacy
100
What year did the English start establishing New England colonies?
1620
200
The mythical hero of British legend, who Christianized pagans.
King Arthur
200
The British hoped to bring this form of Christianity to the Native Americans in the New World?
Protestantism
200
This British monarch made peace with the Spanish and put an end to privateering.
King James
200
The region of Jamestown is named for what bay?
Chesapeake
200
What term began as an insult for British protestants wanting to "cleanse" the European church of its Catholic aspects.
Puritan
300
The author of "Discourse on Western Planting" who explained why England should rescue the New World from Spain, among other things.
Richard Haklyut
300
This is the economic and political idea that explains how European countries believed that there was a limited amount of wealth, and to get more wealth required taking it from others or founding colonies.
Mercantilism
300
Who had more ships, Spain or England in 1588?
Spain
300
The period in 1609 when many Jamestown settlers died is remembered by historians as what?
The "starving time"
300
What image did John Winthrop paint with his words, of the New England colonies where he lived being a "model for the world"?
The "City on a Hill"
400
This "Sea Dog" was made a knight by the British queen for his work stealing from Spain.
Francis Drake
400
This is the term for state-sponsored piracy that Britain practiced at Spain's expense.
privateering
400
What did the Spanish and the Scottish Mary Queen of Scots have in common?
Catholicism
400
What was the first attempt in 1618 to recruit more colonists to grow tobacco called?
The "Headright System"
400
This British King thought the Puritans were dangerous and led to a huge migration of them from England to the New World
King Charles I
500
He replaced Queen Elizabeth on the British throne when she died.
King James
500
This 12th Century book by Geoffrey of Monmouth helped inspire British conquest in the new world.
The History of the Kings of Britain
500
What were the two reasons that the Spanish sent the Armada after the English?
Privateering and the execution of Mary Queen of Scots
500
What is the first representative government established in the new colonies called?
House of Burgesses
500
The brand of Christianity, starting in France, that inspired English Protestants like the Puritans. They believed God already knew who was going to heaven. It had been "pre-destined."