Explorers
Colonies I
Colonies II
Debatable Land
Terms/Names
100
Balboa's important discovery for Spain.
What was the Pacific Ocean?
100
Another name for a colony established for profit by a joint stock company.
What was a corporate colony?
100
He established St. Augustine as a permanent Spanish colony in Florida.
Who was Pedro Menendez?
100
Famous Spanish mission located on the Georgia coast to convert Indians to Catholicism.
Where was Guale?
100
Prehistoric waste dumps started by the Archaic Indians along the Savannah River.
What were Middens?
200
2nd Explorer to circumnavigate the globe.
Who was Francis Drake?
200
Colony owned by the king.
What is a royal or crown colony?
200
Reason for the founding of the Massachusetts Colony by the Pilgrims.
What was religion?
200
Earliest English fort built near the mouth of the Altamaha River in 1721.
Where was Ft. King George?
200
Outlines or holes due to decayed wood.
What are postmolds?
300
Portuguese explorer to explore the S. American coastline later it became known as Brazil.
Who was Pedro Cabral?
300
Proprietary colony founded by the Quakers in N. America.
Where was Pennsylvania?
300
Major seaport for the Carolinas.
Where was Charleston?
300
Special Spanish priest sent to convert the Indians under the mission system.
Who were the Friars?
300
This doctrine stated that the Debatable Land must be settled soon in order to make the claim legitimate.
What was the Doctrine of Effective Occupation?
400
Sailed all the way to India beyond the Cape of Good Hope for Portugal.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
400
England's first attempt to settle the New World in the Carolinas.
Where was Roanoke?
400
Document issued by the king to create a colony.
What was the charter?
400
Name of the Indian uprising against the Spanish because of the Friars Catholicism.
What was Juanillo's Rebellion or Revolt?
400
Term for people native to a region or land.
What is indigenous?
500
He discovered the Gulf Stream while exploring the Florida coastline.
Who was Ponce de Leon?
500
First successful English colony due to tobacco production.
Where was Jamestown or Virginia Colony?
500
Economic policy that involved the colonies providing raw materials for the mother country.
What was mercantilism?
500
Original proposed name before the area was called "Georgia" in the Debatable Land.
What was Azilia?
500
Term for a defensive line that serves a military necessity in case of war.
What is a buffer?