Important Terms
Important Names
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
100

In what year did Columbus discover the New World?

1492

100

Who was the first to use the term "New World"?

Amerigo Vespucci

100

What was the first colony to offer complete religious freedom?

Rhode Island

100

Which Dutch explorer claimed New York for Holland?

Henry Hudson

100

What was the group of representatives who helped govern Virginia?

House of Burgesses

200

In what year was Jamestown founded?

1607

200

Who was the first European to find land in the Western Hemisphere?

Leif Ericson

200

Who was the founder of Hartford, Connecticut, and the writer of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

Thomas Hooker

200

Which plan did William Penn create for how Pennsylvania would be governed fairly?

Charter of Privileges

200

What was the first permanent settlement in Carolina?

Charlestown or Charleston

300
What was a minister who traveled from place to place preaching the Gospel?

circuit-riding preacher

300

Who claimed the east coast of North America for England?

John Cabot

300

Who was the founder of New Hampshire?

John Mason

300

What was New York called when it was a Dutch colony?

New Netherland

300

What was Calvert's reason for starting the Maryland colony?

Religious freedom for the Catholics

400

What was the first college in America founded to train ministers to preach the Gospel?

Harvard

400

Who claimed land now known as Canada for France?

Jacques Cartier

400

Who was the founder of Rhode Island?

Roger Williams

400

What was the first successful settlement in Delaware?

New Sweden

400

What was Oglethorpe's reason for starting the Georgia colony?

to help those in debtor's prison

500

What was a large farm in the South where cotton, tobacco, and other crops were grown?

plantation

500

Who conquered Mexico for Spain?

Hernando Cortes

500

Who was the governor of Connecticut?

John Winthrop, Jr.

500

What English Quaker was given land in the New World as a repayment from King Charles II?

William Penn

500

What was the first settlement in Georgia?

Savannah