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The first establishment in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
Pilgrims signed this before getting off the Mayflower.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He sailed west and landed in the Americas after trying to find a water route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The group of English Protestants that wanted to "purify" the church.
What are Puritans?
In the late 1400's Europeans were anxious to find a route to the Indies. Some felt like they could sail West rather than East. This is what they were looking for.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The country which Christopher Columbus was from.
What is Italy?
The colony that prevented religious persecution.
What is Rhode Island?
Was another name for the Pilgrims.
What are separatists?
Name for the water route to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
European exploration fueled the transatlantic_____ trade.
What is a slave?
Forced to work as slaves and often died.
Who are Native Americans?
Were taught how to hunt and fish.
Who are Europeans?
The year Columbus and his three shipped sailed.
What is 1492?
Were taught how to hunt and fish.
Who are Europeans?
Where Christopher Columbus landed, specifically.
What are the West Indies?
The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The leader of Jamestown.
Who is Captain John Smith?
This European nation sponsered Columbus' expedition across the Atlantic in 1492.
What is Spain?
The motivating forces for exploration.(3 G's)
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
Improvements in _________, ship design, and cartography enabled Europeans to venture further into the unknown.
What is Navigation?
Name for the Spanish explorers.
What are Conquistadors?
To search for gold and riches.
What is a reason for European exploration?
A merchant who returned from China wrote about everything he had witnessed there.
Who is Marco Polo?
He sponsored the exploration of the Atlantic coast of Africa by Portuguese Sailors.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
The group of protestants who opposed war that lived in Pennsylvania.
Who are the Quakers?