CH. 1
This man landed in the Bahamas in 1492 while searching for the East Indies.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
A company formed by English investors to fund colonies.
What is a joint stock company?
This group thought they could change the Church of England from within.
Who were the Puritans?
The two general types of Indian lifestyles.
What are nomadic and farming/settled?
The three different types of colonies.
What are charter, royal, and proprietary?
This colony was founded in part to be a buffer from the Spanish.
What was Georgia?
This is the year most people believe the Vikings first discovered the New World.
What is AD 1000?
The document that provided for the first self-government in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This colony had the first written constitution drawn up in America.
What was Connecticut?
The first Spaniard to explore Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de León?
The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is John Winthrop?
This colony was originally founded by the Netherlands.
What was New York or New Jersey?
Highly skilled, industrious group of Protestants from France.
Who were the Huguenots?
William Penn started Pennsylvania in part to protect this religious group.
Who were the Quakers?
This man called for a celebration of Thanksgiving to God.
Who was William Bradford?