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This Viking explorer is traditionally credited with reaching North America around the year 1000.
Answer: Who is Leif Erikson?
These people traveled with the Pilgrims but were not members of the original Separatist congregation.
Answer: Who are the Strangers?
This was the main agricultural activity that provided a living for most colonial settlers.
Answer: What is farming?
This German religious leader began the Protestant Reformation in 1517.
Answer: Who is Martin Luther?
This college, founded in Massachusetts in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
Answer: What is Harvard College?
his Italian explorer's name was used to name the American continents.
Answer: Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
These colonies were known as the “Bread Colonies” because they produced large quantities of grain.
Answer: What are the Middle Colonies?
his system required colonists to contribute their labor and resources to a common supply of goods.
Answer: What is the common store system?
This religious revival movement spread throughout the American colonies during the 18th century.
Answer: What is the Great Awakening?
This invention, developed around 1440, helped spread books and information more widely.
Answer: What is the movable-type printing press?
This explorer traveled through much of Asia and became famous for his accounts of his journeys.
Answer: Who is Marco Polo?
This colonial region had fertile soil, a warm climate, and a long growing season.
Answer: What are the Southern Colonies?
This triangular trading network connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Answer: What is the triangular trade?
This famous preacher delivered the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
Answer: Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This early teaching tool was a paddle-shaped board displaying the alphabet and often the Lord's Prayer or a Bible verse.
Answer: What is a hornbook?
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire.
Answer: Who is Hernando Cortés?
These were the three social classes commonly identified in the course material about colonial America.
Answer: The upper class, middle class, and lower class.
These workers agreed to work for a fixed number of years in exchange for transportation, food, clothing, and shelter.
Answer: Who are indentured servants?
Church founded by John Wesley
What is the methodist church?
This famous book was among the earliest major works printed in Europe using movable metal type.
Answer: What is the Bible, specifically the Gutenberg Bible?
Answer: What is the Bible, specifically the Gutenberg Bible?
This Spanish explorer is associated with discovering the Mississippi River.
Answer: Who is Hernando de Soto?
This man became the first governor of Plymouth and was later succeeded by William Bradford.
Answer: Who is John Carver?
This industry was highly profitable because whale oil was used for lighting and other products, while other whale products had commercial value.
Answer: What is whaling?
Name two important results of the Great Awakening.
Answer: It encouraged religious enthusiasm and personal conversion, challenged established religious authorities, and contributed to the growth of new churches and educational institutions. Any two are acceptable.
Name three colleges or universities established in the period associated with the Great Awakening.
Answer: Princeton, Columbia, and Brown are examples. Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania are also commonly associated with colonial-era higher education.