Izarrie
An Italian explorer who sailed to the Americas in 1492, thinking he had reached Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The first permanent English settlement in America, founded in 1607 in Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
Separatists who sailed to America on the Mayflower to establish a new religious community.
Who were the Pilgrims?
The colony founded by the Pilgrims in present-day Massachusetts.
What is Plymouth?
An agreement made by the Pilgrims to govern themselves and create laws in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The three major motivations Europeans had for exploration and colonization.
What are Gold, Glory, and God?
The belief that a country's wealth comes from having more gold and silver than other countries, along with strict trade control.
What is mercantilism?
The movement of English settlers from Jamestown to other parts of the American colonies to find better land, resources, and opportunities.
What was the Great Migration?
The colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, known for trade and diversity.
What were the Middle Colonies?
A religious group that believed in peace, equality, and freedom of religion and founded Pennsylvania.
Who were the Quakers?
The chief of the Powhatan tribe who both helped and opposed the English settlers at different times.
Who was Powhatan?
A Quaker leader who founded Pennsylvania and received it as a proprietary colony.
Who was William Penn?
Colonies founded and governed by joint-stock companies, often for profit.
What were corporate colonies
The English colonies in the Chesapeake Bay area, including Virginia and Maryland.
What were the Chesapeake Colonies?
A rebirth in European learning, art, and culture that included studying ancient Greece and Rome.
What was the Renaissance?
The explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and became the first European to reach India by sea.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
An agreement between Spain and Portugal that divided newly discovered lands outside Europe.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
A Spanish system in which settlers were given land and Native American laborers in exchange for protection and Christianization.
What was the Encomienda System?
A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire in South America.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
Laws requiring English ships to bring certain colonial goods to England and limiting foreign trade.
What were the Navigation Laws?
England's policy of loosely enforcing its control over the colonies, allowing them more self-government and freedom.
What was salutary neglect?
This economic system encouraged colonies to provide raw materials to England while buying manufactured goods from England.
What is mercantilism?
Unlike Separatists, these English Protestants believed the Church of England could be changed from within rather than abandoned completely.
What are Non-Separatists?
These Protestants believed the Church of England was too corrupt and created their own religious communities.
Who were the Separatists?
This conflict resulted partly from increasing English settlement and competition over land between colonists and Native Americans in New England.
What was King Philip's War?