Exploration & Discovery
Colonies & Settlements
Colonial Leaders & Government
Native Americans & the New World
Colonies Exchange & Early America
100

Which Italian explorer gave the New World its name?

Amerigo Vespucci

100

What was the name of the first successful settlement in the New World? 

Jamestown 

100

Who founded Rhode Island in 1636?

Roger Williams 

100

The idea that American Indians crossed the Bering Strait into the New World from Asia is considered a fact or a theory? 

Theory 

100

What was the name of the written plan created for governing the Plymouth Colony? 

The Mayflower Compact 

200

Which Viking explorer reached the New World around the year 1000

Leif Erikson 

200

What was the first permanent European settlement in the United States? 

St. Augustine 

200

Which group founded Maryland in 1636? 

Lords Baltimore ( George Calvert)

200

American Indian groups had which 2 similar traits? 

Laws and Religion 

200

What group of People wanted change for the Church of England, and which ones wanted to completely separate from the Church of England? 

a. Puritans 

b. Separatists 

Puritans wanted change, Separatists wanted to separate 

300

Christopher Columbus Sailed for the King and Queen of which country?

Spain

300

This Settlement became the capital of New Mexico and was founded in 1609

Santa Fe 

300

Who founded Connecticut in 1636?

Thomas Hooker 

300

American Indians had which 2 different traits?

Homes and food sources

300

Which people were brought into America as part of the Columbian Exchange? 

Africans Slaves 

400

Columbus believed the earth was small or bigger than its actual size?

Smaller 

400

Sir Walter Raleigh unsuccessfully founded with colony?

Roanoke 

400

A colony established by one individual or family is what type of colony:

a. Proprietary 

b. Corporate

c. Royal 

Proprietary 

400

What was the name of the famous "sea dog" who fought against Spain and defeated the Spanish Armanda?

Sir Francis Drake 

400

What valuable resource traveled from the Americas to Europe during the Columbians Exchange? 

Gold 

500

Who do explorers say really discovered the New world?

We don't know for sure because different groups arrived at different times

500

Who founded Georgia in 1732?

James Oglethorpe 

500

A colony controlled directly by the king through his minsters or council was what kind of colony?

a. Proprietary

b. Corporate

c. Royal 

Royal 

500

Spain discovered what 2 wealthy empires that led other European countries to explore the New World?

Aztecs & Incas 

500

What was brought from Europe to the Americas and caused serious illness among the indigenous people? 

Diseases