Settlements
AKA - the Lost Colony
What is Roanoke?
The colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
What are the New England Colonies?
This Viking explorer first found land in the Western Hemisphere in 1000.
Who was Leif Ericson?
This is the line of latitude that divides the northern and southern hemispheres in half.
What is the equator?
This was the name of the type of school that was common in the Southern Colonies.
What is an old-field school?
Started by Puritans in what became the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620.
What is Plymouth Colony?
The colonies of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
What are the Southern Colonies?
The explorer who first called the newly discovered land in the Western Hemisphere the New World
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
This is the line of longitude that runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The belief that all men should work, that all work is honorable, and that man serves God best by working faithfully in his calling
What is the Puritan Work Ethic?
the first permanent settlement in Carolina
What is Charles Town (Charleston)?
The colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
What are the Middle Colonies?
The explorer who claimed the east coast of America for England
Who was John Cabot?
This is the largest ocean.
What is the Pacific?
A school held in the home of a colonial woman
What is a Dame School?
first permanent English settlement in the New World
What is Jamestown?
This colony was founded by William Penn
What is Pennsylvania?
This man was a Puritan minister who founded Providence, Rhode Island.
Who was Roger Williams?
This is name for the symbol that indicates cardinal and ordinal direction on a map.
What is a compass rose?
These were ministers who traveled from place to place preaching the Gospel
What were Circuit-riders?
first permanent settlement in America, founded by Spain in 1565
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
This colony had the House of Burgesses which was their group of government representatives
What is the Virginia Colony?
This man, aka Lord Baltimore, wanted to begin the colony of Maryland to offer religious freedom.
Who was George Calvert?
The continent at the southern tip of the globe.
What is Antarctica?
This was the plan for government in the Pennsylvania Colony
What was the Charter of Privileges?