Explorers
Important Names
Important Places
Important Terms
13 Colonies
100

Who claimed land now known as Canada for France?

Jacques Cartier

100

Who was the governor of Roanoke?

John White

100

What was the first settlement in Georgia?

Savannah

100

Who was a person who agreed to work for a certain number of years until his debt for transportation to the New World was paid?

Indentured servant
100

What was the main colonial textbook for over 150 years?

What was a paddle-shaped board with a sheet of paper attached to it?

New England Primer

Hornbook
200

After which explorer are North and South America named?

Amerigo Vespucci

200

Who was the founder of the New Hampshire Colony?

John Mason

200

What was the first successful settlement in Delaware?

New Sweden

200

What was the name of the group of government representatives in the Virginia Colony?

House of Burgesses

200

What was the first colony to offer complete religious freedom?

Rhode Island

300

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

Leif Ericson

300

Who was the Dutch explorer who claimed southern New York for Holland?

Henry Hudson

300

What was the first permanent settlement in America?

St. Augustine, Florida

300

What is an official permit to begin colonies in the New World?

Charter

300

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

Harvard

400

Who claimed the east coast of North America for England?

John Cabot

400

Who was known as "Lord Baltimore" and wanted to begin the Maryland Colony where people could worship as they chose?

George Calvert

400

What English settlement in the New World founded by the Pilgrims in 1620?

Plymouth Colony

400

What is the belief that all men should work, that all work is honorable, and that man serves God best by working faithfully in his calling?

Puritan work ethic

400

Who were ministers who traveled from place to place preaching the Gospel?

Circuit-riders

500

Who conquered Mexico for Spain?

Hernando Cortes

500

Who started the Georgia colony from a desire to help people get out of debtor's prison in England?

James Oglethorpe

500

What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?

Jamestown

500

What was the plan for government in the Pennsylvania Colony?

Charter of Privileges

500

Who was the founder of Rhode Island?

Roger Williams