Team A
The original inhabitants of this continent?
Native Americans
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.?
Leaf Eriksson
Short Civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized?
Bacon's Rebellion
War between France and England in America
French and Indian war
What did Leaf Eriksson Name the land he discovered?
Vineland or Newfoundland
King of Portugal who suggested it was possible to sail around Africa?
Henry the Navigator
War between France and England - In Europe
The Seven Years War
General who captured Quebec
James Wolfe
European credited with the discovery of America?
Christopher Columbus
Who financed Columbus's first voyage?
King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella of Spain
Document that signified the end of the French & Indian War
The Treaty of Paris
Year that the French & Indian War started
1754
A venetian Captain who first planted the English flag on American soil?
John Cabot
First European to reach India by sea?
Vasco da Gama
Explorer after whom our continent is named?
Amerigo Vespucci
Leader of the first expedition to the circle the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
French explorer who claimed Canada for France
Jacques Cartier
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States
Saint Augustine, Florida
First English sailor to circle the globe
Sir Francis Drake
First English colony in America which Disappeared?
Roanoke
Who Established Roanoke Colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
First Lasting English colony?
Jamestown?
Who was Jamestown named after?
King James I of England- granted the charter to the Virginia Company that established the settlement.
Head of the colony in Jamestown?
Captain John Smith
First form of representative government in the English colonies, established in Virginia
The House of Burgesses.
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion
Puritans
Puritans that left the Anglican Church altogether
Separatists
Separatists that sailed to the new world
Pilgrams
The agreement that established a form of government for the Pilgrims.
Mayflower Compact
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrams
Samoset and Squanto
Law that forbade colonists from building boats required all goods to be carried on English ships
The Navigation Act
Protector of England who established the Navigation Act?
Oliver Cromwell
Land Purchased by the Dutchman Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets
Manhattan Island
Land granted to William Penn?
Pennsyvania
What does Pennsylvania mean?
Penn's Woods.
Borderline separating Pennsylvania and Maryland?
Mason-Dixon Line