When was it?
When did Christopher Columbus first land in the New World?
1492
Who wrote and posted the Ninety-five These?
Martin Luther
Who was the Italian merchant that was the first European to travel the length of Asia?
Marco Polo
Who aided the Pilgrims by acting as a guide and interpreter and by teaching them how to hunt and fish?
Squanto
What revived trade with the East?
crusades
When did the Pilgrims land at New Plymouth?
1620
Who explored the St. Lawrence River?
Jacques Cartier
Who introduced the movable-type printing press to Europe?
Johann Gutenberg
Who first realized that Columbus had explored a new world?
Amerigo Vespucci
What ship carried the Pilgrims to the New World?
Mayflower
When was the movable-type printing press invented?
1440
Who wrote the History of Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford
Who settled Providence?
Roger Williams
Who was the first governor of Plymouth?
John Carver
What was the first permanent French settlement in the New World?
Quebec
When did the English defeat the Spanish Armada?
1588
Samuel de Champlain
Who founded the settlement of Hartford?
Thomas Hooker
Who translated the Bible into the Algonquian tongue?
John Eliot
What was the first permanent European settlement in the present-day United States?
St. Augustine
When was Harvard founded?
1636
Who led a Spanish expedition to explore the Mississippi River?
Hernando de Soto
Who led the expedition to explore the Grand Canyon?
Francisco Coronado
Who was the first governor of Massachusetts Bay?
John Winthrop
What did the Old Deluder Satan Act establish?
a town school system