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Head of the colony in Jamestown.
Who was Captain John Smith?
The original inhabitants of this continent.
Who were the Native Americans?
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000AD.
Who was Leif Ericson?
Land granted to William Penn.
What was Pennsylvania?
Explorer after who our continent is named.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
Financed Columbus' first voyage.
Who were King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain?
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
European credited with the discovery of America.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Borderline separating Pennsylvania and Maryland.
What is the Mason-Dixon line?
First English sailor to circle the globe.
Who was Sir Francis Drake?
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets.
What is Manhattan Island?
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion.
Who were the Puritans?
English sailor who discovered Cape Cod.
Who was John Cabot?
First English colony in America, which disappeared.
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
King of Portugal who suggested it was possible to sail around Africa.
Who was Henry the Navigator?
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia.
What was the House of Burgesses?
French sailor who discovered the St. Lawrence River.
First lasting English colony.
What was Jamestown?
Protector of England who established the Navigation Act.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims.
Who were Samoset and Squanto?
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to carried on English ships.
First European to reach India by sea.
Who was Vasco de Gama?
Who established the first colony in America?
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?