Vocab
a tool invented by the Arabs that sailors used to determine their location
Quadrant
Who explored the coast of Africa for Portugal?
Dias
The first person to sail from Europe
to India was...
Vasco Da Gama
The English founded the colony but many of the colonists would not work.
Jamestown
a group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods
Caravan
Who set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492?
Columbus
It was declared that Indians were
humans with souls by the__________
pope
To pay for their voyage to America, many people became indentured _______.
Servants
an invention that allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing
Compass
Who wrote about the treatment of the American Indians?
Las Casas
The people who started their own churches and kept apart from the Church of England were called______
Separatists
A Patuxet Indian taught Pilgrims to grow food in the__________Colony.
Plymouth
Which term refers to sailing against the wind in a zigzag pattern?
tacking
Who made the colonists at Jamestown work in the fields?
John Smith
The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who wanted the community to be a model of Christian love, was_______.
John Winthrop
Which colony set up a congregational church government?
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Which country built the first caravel
Portugal
Who governed New Netherland?
Peter Stuyvesant
The people who wanted to change the Church of England by removing the false teachings and practices were called ________.
Puritans
Who was the chief of several woodland tribes in the Chesapeake Bay area?
Powhatan