Short Answer
What is a tool invented by the Arabs that sailors used to determine their location?
Quadrant
To pay for their voyage to America, many people became indentured?
Servants
Who explored the coast of Africa for Portugal?
a. John Winthrop
b. Columbus
c. Dias
d. Las Casas
c. Dias
The English founded the colony__________ but many of the colonists would not work.
Jamestown
In what way did English cities motivate people to start colonies?
People wanted to start colonies for religious reasons beause English cities had become wicked.
A group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods are called?
A caravan
The people who wanted to change the Church of England by removing false teachings and practices were called?
Puritans
Who set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492?
a. Las Casas
b. Da Gama
c. Dias
d. Columbus
d. Columbus
A Patuxet Indian taught Pilgrims to grow food in the ___________ Colony?
Plymouth
What did Columbs persuade his men to do when they became restless?
Persevere
What is an invention that allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing?
A compass
The people who started their own churches and kept apart from the Church of England were called?
Who wrote about the treatment of the American Indians?
a. Powhatan
b. Dias
c. Da Gama
d. Las Casas
d. Las Casas
Which colony set up a congregational church government?
Massachusetts Bay Colony
How did Charles I try to end Puritanism?
He sent bishops to churches. He was going to make the Puritans obey the rules of the Church of England. Pastors who did not obey Charles's rules were removed from churches. Some Puritan pastors when into prison or were fined large amounts of money.
Who was the first person to sail from Europe to India?
Vasco da Gama
The first govenor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who wanted the community to be a model of Christian love, was???
John Winthrop
Who made the colonists at Jamestown work in the fields?
a. Columbus
b. John Smith
c. Dias
d. Las Casas
b. John Smith
Which settlement made an agreement with the Iroquis and Hurons, established trading, and was hindered by cold weather?
New France
What accomplishments was John Smith known for?
He was an accomplished soldier. He became the leader of Jamestown. His maps of Virginia helped promote colonization. He wrote books and maps that were used by the Puritans.
Who declared that Indians were humans with souls?
the pope
The chief of several woodland tribes in the Chesapeake Bay area?
Powhatan
Who governed at New Netherland?
a. John Smith
b. Las Casas
c. Da Gama
d. Peter Stuyvestant
d. Peter Stuyvestant
Which settlement was governed by Peter Stuyvestant, made its money by trade,and name its capital city New Amsterdam?
New Netherland
What is an indentured servant?
An indentured servant agrees to work for a period of time to pay off a debt. When their debt is paid off they are free to go. They were different than European slaves.