Basic Vocabulary
This tool helped sailors know what direction they were sailing in
compass
Set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492
Christopher Columbus
Jamestown
The ____________________ were a group of people who wanted to purify the Church of England by removing false teachings and practices.
Puritans
The Pilgrims landed in a place that had been cleared for farming and they discovered some _________ that had been stored.
corn
This type of sail gave a ship power
Square
Started a navigation school to help sailors become skilled at navigation
Prince Henry
_________________________ was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who wanted the community to be a model of Christian love.
John Winthrop
The _________________________ were a group of Puritans who separated from the Church of England and started their own churches according to God’s Word.
Separatists
The English were looking to start new colonies in America because there was not enough ___________ in England
Jobs/Land
This type of sail allowed a ship to sail into the wind
small triangular
This explorer from Portugal sailed along the cost of Africa
Dias
A Patuxet Native American named ________ taught the colonists how to grow new foods in the Plymouth colony.
Squanto
When the Separatists left England, they first moved to the ____________, but they did not like that their children disobeyed their parents and they allowed too much sin.
Netherlands
This early settlement made an agreement with the Iroquois and Huron tribes; they also began a fur-trade economy.
New France
This person agreed to work for a certain amount of time to pay off a debt
indentured servant
This early explorer wanted to be the first to sail from Europe to India
da Gama
This colony set up a congregational church government so that they choose their church leaders instead of having a bishop and priest like the Church of England.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
During early exploration, the __________ did not like the mistreatment of the Native Americans and he declared that they were humans with souls.
Pope
The ____________ monks tried to convert the Indians to their religion by building missions for the Indians to live and work on.
Franciscan
The _____________ were not part of the Separatists colonies, but they had money to help set up the colony
strangers
This explorer did not agree with the treatment of American Indians. He eventually became a monk.
Las Casas
People wanted to start new colonies for ___________ reasons because they believed that England's church had become wicked.
religious
The Roman Catholic Church became more interested in power and wealth than the _________ of people.
salvation
During early exploration, why were goods from Asia and India so expensive?
The merchants would buy the goods and then resell them at a higher price.