Vocab
Columbus’s idea that Europeans could establish a direct trade route with the Indies by sailing west
Enterprise of the Indies
These monarchs sponsored Columbus' voyage to the "Indies"
Isabel and Fernando of Spain
The first explorer to the New World sent by England
John Cabot
What New France was made up of
Canada and Central USA
The first settlers to come to the Plymouth Colony
The Pilgrims
The theory that, in order to grow rich and powerful, a nation needed raw materials from colonies which could be turned into finished goods and then sold back to the colonies
Mercantilism
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztecs
Hernando Cortés
The year that Jamestown colony was founded
1607
The explorer who established the first lasting French colony at Quebec
Samuel de Champlain
The Puritans settled here
Massachusetts Bay Colony
To make someone appear guilty of committing a crime
Incriminate
A Spaniard who explored what is now the Southeast USA
Hernando de Soto
The monarch of England who promoted the voyage of this first English explorer
Henry VII
The main source of French wealth in the New World
Furs
Name of the first framework of government created in what would become the United States
Mayflower Compact
Formal or solemn agreement between two parties
Covenant
The first European explorer to set foot in Florida
Juan Ponce de Leon
The English monarch who commissioned the first English attempts at settlement in the New World
Elizabeth I
The first king of France to promote exploration in the New World
Francois I
The Puritan dissident who founded the Providence colony
Roger Williams
Wickedness or a very bad way of behaving
Depravity
What was title that Ponce de Leon had in Florida?
Captain of the Land and Sea of San Juan and Governor of Florida and Bimini
The French and the English sent explorers to find
A Northwest passage to the Indies
Name the five states that the French settlement was on
New York, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
These documents guaranteed the traditional safeguards of liberty (ex: free elections, trial by jury, etc.)
"Body of Liberties" and "General Fundamentals"