People
Colony
Settlement
Definitions
history
100

Conquered Mexico for Spain

Hernando Cortes

100

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut 

New England Colonies

100

Countries that establish settlements in North America 

England, France and Spain

100

The written record of what man has done with the time God has given him 

History 

100

The number of original colonies

13

200

Explorer who claimed eastern coast of North America for England

John Cabot 

200

First colony to offer complete religious freedom; founded by Roger Williams 

Rhode Island 

200

First permanent European settlement in America 

St. Augustine 

200

Most likely made it possible for the first people to reach the Western Hemisphere 

Land bridge 

200

The year Plymouth Colony was founded 

1620

300

First European to find land in the Western Hemisphere

Leif Ericson

300

Fishing is a major industry in this colony

New England 

300

First permanent English settlement in America 

Jamestown

300

Nearly all people that come to the New world were seeking this

Freedom 

300

The year Christopher Columbus discovered the new world 

1492

400

Catholic; sought to establish Maryland for religious freedom 

George Calvert 

400

Known as the lost colony

Roanoke

400

The first permanent settlement in Carolina 

Charleston 

400

A group of people ruled by their own native country who settled in a new land

Colony

400

The belief that we can honor God in our work

Puritan work ethic

500

North and South America was named after him

Amerigo Vespucci

500

Became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Plymouth Colony

500

Originally established to help people in debtors prison

Georgia

500

A permit given by a ruler 

Charter

500

The fundamental orders of Connecticut became a pattern for this 

Constitution