Explorers
Set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This allows sailors to know which direction they are sailing.
What is a compass?
This colony set up a Congregational church government.
What is the MBC?
The people who wanted to purify the Church of England.
Who are the Puritans?
Columbus set sail from this country.
What is Spain?
Became a monk and wrote about the treatment of American Indians.
Who is Las Casas?
This gives the ship power.
What is a big square sail?
This is where a Patuxet Indian taught the colonists how to grow new foods.
What is Jamestown?
The people who wanted to separate from the Church of England.
Who are the Separatists?
Columbus told his sailors to do what?
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
What is a quadrant?
This colony was built in a poor spot, and many of the colonists could not work.
What is Jamestown?
People who worked for a period of time to work off a debt.
Who are indentured servants?
Columbus went here after sailing the coast of Africa.
What is the Canary Islands?
He eventually declared that American Indians are humans with souls.
Who is the pope?
This allows a ship to sail into the wind.
What is a small triangular sail?
The place where these colonists landed was largely uninhabited.
What is Plymouth.
The first governor of the MBC who wanted the community to be a model of Christian love.
Who is John Winthrop?
Columbus first set sail in this month.
What is August?
He helped Portugal become skilled at exploration.
Who is Prince Henry?
The colonial governor was in charge of trade with these people.
Having its company's leaders in America gave the colonists greater freedom.
What is MBC?
The captain who made the colonists at Jamestown work in the fields.
Who is John Smith?
Columbus landed in America in this month.
What is October?