Dates
What year did the Pilgrims land at New Plymouth?
1620
Who aided the Pilgrims by acting as a guide and interpreter and by teaching them how to hunt and fish?
Squanto
The first permanent European settlement in the present-day United States.
St. Augustine
Who introduced the movable-type printing press to Europe?
Johann Gutenberg
Who gave a land grant to an individual for a proprietary colony?
the king
Harvard founded
1636
Who first realized that Columbus had explored a new world?
Amerigo Vespucci
Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explored the central Mississippi River for what country?
France
The incident that was an indication that colonists expected the goverment's protection.
Bacon's Rebellion
What did the Old Deluder Satan Act establish?
a town school system
English defeated the Spanish Armada
1588
Founded the settlement of Hartford
Thomas Hooker
New Netherland was renamed ____?
New York
What type of government did the Pilgrims set a precedent for when they signed a compact before settling Plymouth.
Representative
Who was the Italian merchant that was the first European to travel the length of Asia?
Christopher Columbus first landed in the New World
1492
Explored the St. Lawrence River
Jacques Cartier
Colony founded as a haven for the Quakers
What ship carried the Pilgrims to the New World?
Mayflower
The city remembered as the "city of brotherly love"
Philidelphia
Movable-type printing press invented
1440
First governor of Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop
Colony intended as a settlement for debtor prisoners.
Georgia
Trade with the East was revived by what?
The crusades
Who founded Pennsylvania and Delaware?
William Penn