People & Exploration
Italian merchant who traveled through Asia
Marco Polo
First permanent English settlement .. 1607
St. Augustine
Ship that carried the Pilgrims to the New World
Mayflower
Helped prepare England for limited representative government
Magna Carta
Columbus landed in the New World
1492
1st to realize Columbus had reached a New World NOT Asia
Amerigo Vespucci
City of Brotherly Love
Philadelphia
Founded the settlement of Hartford
Thomas Hooker
Showed that colonists expected their government to protect them
Bacon's Rebellion
Pilgrims landed at Plymouth
1620
Made 1st Spanish Landing on the mainland of North America
Juan Ponce de Leon
Intended for a settlement of debtors
Georgia
What happened in 1620
Pilgrims land at New Plymouth
Wrote and posted the Ninety-five Theses
Martin Luther
English defeated the Spanish Armada
1588
Led Spanish expedition that the Pacific Ocean from the Americas
Vasco de Balboa
Found as haven for Catholics
Maryland
John Carver
His break with the Roman Catholic Church officially began the English Reformation
Henry Vlll
Harvard was founded
1636
Introduced the movable type printing press to Europe
Johan Gutenburg
Later renamed New York
New Netherland
Worked among the Wampanoag on Martha's Vineyard
Thomas Mayhew
Established a town School system
Old Deluder Satan Act
The year Coach Rick was born
1973