Jamestown
What were the colonists looking for when they came to Jamestown?
Gold
What was the name of the group who settled Plymouth colony?
Pilgrims
Who conquered the Aztecs?
Hernan Cortes
What event began in 1619, bringing people from Africa to the New World?
Atlantic Slave Trade
Government of Virginia Colony?
House of Burgesses
What year did the colonists first establish the colony at Jamestown?
1607
What year did the colonists arrive at Plymouth?
1620
Who founded the Pennsylvania colony?
William Penn
What year did Puritans arrive in New England?
1630
Wealthy Spanish settlers were called?
Creoles
What English King supported the colony of Jamestown?
What was the name of the document, named after the ship, that colonists signed before leaving the ship?
Mayflower Compact
Who founded the Maryland colony?
Lord Baltimore
What event happened in 1676, where poor settlers tried to overthrow the wealthy and elite of Virginia?
Bacon's Rebellion
Poor Spanish and mixed-race people of Spanish territories?
Mestizos
What crop did they start growing in the Jamestown colony?
Tobacco
What was the name of the Native American who assisted the colonists at Plymouth?
Squanto
Left Plymouth colony to establish other New England colonies?
Roger Williams
What laws were passed in 1662, that took away all rights for enslaved people?
Virginia Slave Codes
Colony established for people in debt?
Georgia
What was the name of the Native American tribe the Jamestown colonists fought against?
Powhatan
Where did the settlers of Plymouth go when they first left England, before they journeyed to the new world?
Netherlands (Amsterdam)
The group that left England and set up the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 10 years after the Pilgrims came to Plymouth.
Puritans
What colony, founded in 1585, disappeared by 1590, with no trace of the colonists?
Roanoke
Name of Incan King conquered by Pizarro?
Atahualpa