Precursor to the New World
The first European to travel the entire length of Asia
Who is Marco Polo?
Columbus reached this Island in 1492
What is San Salvador?
Sir Walter Raleigh sent an ill-fated expedition to establish a colony on this infamous island
What is Roanoke Island?
Vasco de Balboa set his eyes on this body of water after crossing the Isthmus of Panama?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This group of religious people elected John Winthrop to serve as the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company
Who are the Puritans?
Mr. Columbus famously sailed the ocean blue on this date
When was 1492?
He wrote the first American history book, History of Plymouth Plantation
Who is William Bradford?
He was the first Englishman to sail around the world
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
Thomas Hooker founded this colony in the city of Hartford
What is Connecticut?
First known European to step foot on the New World
Who is Leif Ericson?
This man was rewarded for correcting Columbus by having 16.4 million square miles of new real estate named after him
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This man led a volunteer militia that marched to and burns down Jamestown
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
Hernando de Soto discovered this river whilst traveling through Alabama and Mississippi
What is the Mississippi River?
Thomas Mayhew worked on this island to reach the Wampanoag people
What is Martha's Vineyard?
This settlement was established in 1607, making it the first permanent English settlement in the New World
What is Jamestown?
This document helped prepare England for limited government
What is the Magna Carta?
This act established the first town school system in America
What is the Old Deluder Satan Act?
This colony was founded after the Duke of York threatened Peter Stuyvesant
What is New York?
He was the king that made the English Reformation official by breaking ties between England and the Roman Catholic Church
Who was King Henry VIII?
He was the first modern European explorer to set foot on the mainland of North America
Who is John Cabot?
He was given the title of Father of New France
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
He printed the first Bible in the America
Who is John Elliot?
Pastor John Robinson led a group of Separatists to this Dutch city
What is Leyden?
Spain's big bad battle boats were beat in this year
When was 1588?
This colony established a representative government with America's first written constitution
What is Connecticut?
The ship that the pilgrims arrived to the New World in
What is the Mayflower?
This colony was founded by Roger Williams for the purpose of religious freedom
What is Rhode Island?
The event that did the most to revive European trade with the East
What were the Crusades?
This man is known for conquering a violent indigenous tribe lead by the powerful ruler, Montezuma II
Who is Hernando Cortes?
John Smith, to save the settlment, did away with this system in Jamestown
This man is credited for leading the expedition in which the Grand Canyon would be discovered
Who is Francisco Coronado?
What is St. Augustine, FL?
Samuel de Champlain established the first permanent French settlement in the New World in this year?
When was 1608?
The precedent for representative government in early America
What is the House of Burgesses?
The Puritans influenced America the most through this
What is a Puritan work ethic?
This man founded two colonies because of his desire for a safe haven for the Quakers
Who is William Penn?
Johann Gutenberg's method of Biblical production
What was the movable-type printing press?
This Spanish sailor set the first Spanish foot on North American soil.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
This man was captured by English explorers twice in his life but still made his way back to North America, where he discovered that all of his friends and family were wiped out by disease
Who is Squanto?
John Carver was the first governor of this settlment
What is New Plymouth?
The Pilgrims stepped ashore onto New Plymouth in this year
When is 1620?
The New England Confederation set this precedent in America
What is the first voluntary American union?
The kind of economic system in which individuals are able to own businesses and make a living dependent on their own initiative
What is free enterprise?
Maryland was founded as a safe haven for this religious group
Who are the English Catholics?
His interesting door decoration caused the start of widespread rejection of Catholic doctrine across Europe
Who is Martin Luther?
This monarchal couple sponsored Columbus's journey to find a new route to the Far East
Who is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain?
These two French explorers led an expedition which explored the central Mississippi River
Who are Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet?
What is Harvard?
The pilgrims used used the Mayflower Compact to set this important precedent
What is representative government?
Harvard was the first one of these in the New World
What is an institution of higher learning or a college?
This is the only proprietary colony that was not settled for profit but as a benevolent undertaking
What is Georgia?