Early Exploration
This European nation sponsored Christopher Columbus’ voyages.
What is Spain?
This term describes the transfer of goods, people, animals, and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the first attempted English colony in North America, which mysteriously disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
This group established a colony after leaving England because they wanted to separate from the Church of England.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This colonial region was known for fishing and shipbuilding.
What are the New England Colonies?
True or False: Columbus landed on mainland North America.
What is false?
This was the exchange of manufactured goods, enslaved people, and raw materials between Europe, Africa, and North America.
What is Triangular Trade?
This was the name of the representative government established in Jamestown in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This document established self-government and democracy among the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This colonial region became known as the "breadbasket" because of its large production of grain.
What are the Middle Colonies?
European explorers were motivated by these three things, often summarized as "the Three G's"
What is God, Gold, Glory?
This region received the majority of African slaves transported across the Atlantic.
What are Brazil and the Caribbean?
This cash crop helped Jamestown become profitable and begin to prosper.
What is Tobacco?
This group wanted to purify the Church of England and established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who are the Puritans?
This colonial region was known for long growing seasons and tobacco production.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This spirit of discovery and innovation, awakened during the _________, helped encourage European exploration.
What is the Renaissance?
Columbus' legacy included conquest and enslavement, as well as this devastating result for __________.
What are Native Americans?
The Virginia Company primarily hoped that its Jamestown colony would make money by discovering this valuable resource.
What is gold?
This Puritan leader helped establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is John Winthrop?
Maryland was part of the _________ Colonies.
What are the Southern Colonies?
One theory about the disappearance of Roanoke suggests that the settlers traveled to this nearby island.
What is Croatoan Island?
What did Ferdinand Magellan do?
What is circumnavigate the globe?
This group sponsored the Jamestown colony in hopes of making money from the New World.
What is the Virginia Company?
Which group wanted to be "a city upon a hill"?
Who are the Puritans?
This region became highly diverse because colonies such as Pennsylvania offered freedom of religion and attracted many different groups.