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English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America.
Who is Humphrey Gilbert
100
A large wealthy and highly civilized tribe that inhabited the majority of South America captured and defeated by a relatively small group of Spaniards in the early 1500s.
Who are the Incas
100
A Spanish Fleet that sailed against England that was intended to overthrow Queen England in the Atlantic and Pacific, but was ultimately destroyed by England
What is the Spanish Armada
100
A Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers.
What is New Netherland
100
The English branch of the Western Christian Church, which combines Catholic and Protestant traditions.
What is the Church of England
200
A prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts.
Who is Thomas Hooker
200
English colonist in Virginia and husband of Pocahontas.
Who is John Rolfe
200
A pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum.
What is Triangular Trade Route
200
A period of time in England where people were grouped in a hierarchical system with the King at the top. The nearer to the top of the system you were, the richer you were. If you were born poor there was little chance of you becoming rich.
What is Tudor System
200
English Protestants preferring to separate from rather than to reform the Church of England.
What is Separatists
300
British General and founder of the colony of Georgia.
Who is James Oglethorpe
300
A sophisticated confederacy of 5 Indian tribes in the Northeastern part of America
Who are the Iroquois
300
The broad term used to designate the products derived from the resin of pine trees which were used to construct ships. In colonial times, pine tree forests were widely distributed and many were readily harvestable for such products and were used as exports for the colonies.
What are Naval Stores
300
A business whose capital is held in transferable shares of stock by its joint owners.
What is Joint Stock Company
300
Series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to1770.
What is the Great Awakening
400
German priest and theologian who led the Reformation; believed that salvation is granted on the basis of faith rather than deeds.
Who is Martin Luther
400
An Indian tribe up north near the now Canadian border and Lake Huron who were a part of the Iroquoian Tribe who sided with the French in the French-Indian wars.
Who are the Hurons
400
The broad term used to designate the products derived from the resin of pine trees which were used to construct ships. In colonial times, pine tree forests were widely distributed and many were readily harvestable for such products and were used as exports for the colonies.
Who is Samuel de Champlain
400
The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
What is Mercantilism
400
A Protestant denomination holding that each individual congregation should be self-governing.
What was the Congregational Church
500
United States printer (born in England) whose press produced the first American prayer book and the New York City's first newspaper (1663-1752).
Who is William Bradford
500
Very advanced and large Indian tribe who reigned in Mexico until 15th Century who had an intricate social, political, religious and commercial organization conquered by Hernan Cortez.
Who are the Aztecs
500
This was the middle part of the Triangular Trade Route and was the part of the passage whereby the Africans were brought to America as slaves.
What is the Middle Passage
500
A legal grant of land to settlers.
What is a Headwright System
500
English Methodist preacher, who separated from the Wesleys because of his Calvinistic views.
Who was George Whitefield