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This Italian navigator set sail for Spain in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This treaty was a commitment between Spain and Portugal that created the Papal Line of Demarcation which divided the New World.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
In the 1400s and 1500s, this area is located in North and Central America, including the Caribbean and Spanish East Indies.
Where is New Spain?
This prevailing economic philosophy of the 1600s focused on the belief that the worlds wealth was sharply limited and one nations gain was another nations loss.
What is Mercantilism?
This Spanish Fleet was assembled by King Philip II of Spain to invade England.
What is the Spanish Armada?
When a cartographer mistakenly thought that this Italian sailor landed in the New World before Christopher Columbus, the cartographer named the continent America.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This representative assembly in Virginia was the first representative house in America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This settlement is considered to be the first permanent European settlement in what would become the United States.
Where is St. Augustine, Florida?
This business structure was used as a low risk investment to raise money for expeditions to the New World.
What is a Joint Stock Company
This was a period of starvation endured by the Jamestown colonists in which a large number of colonists died. This was overcome mostly through trade with the local Native Americans for food supplies.
What is "Starving Time"?
This English monarch invested in English raids on the Spanish New World and established Protestantism in England.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
This was a movement by those who wished to reform the Church of England to be more in line with their ideology. Followers rejected Roman Catholic holdovers and sought to make the English Church "pure".
What is English Puritanism?
This English settlement was the first to receive African slaves in 1619.
Where is Jamestown?
This Joint Stock company, based out of Fort Orange and New Amsterdam, carried on a profitable fur trade with the Native American Iroquois.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
This practice allowed poor workers, convicted criminals and debtors to have immigration passage and fees in return for labor on behalf of a planter or company.
What is Indentured Servitude?
This Englishman established the settlement of Roanoke and ultimately abandoned his attempts to colonize Virginia after its failure setting back English Colonization in America by 15 years.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
This specific group of Puritans believed the Church of England was beyond saving and felt they must break away from it.
Who were Separatists?
This originally Dutch settlement switched between Dutch and English ownership between 1664 and 1674 and eventually ended with English ownership.
Where is Delaware?
This Joint-Stock company was chartered by a group of Puritans to escape King James I. It was led by John Winthrop, and was one of the few groups that did not undergo "starving time" that often plagued first year colonies.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Company?
This system was used by the Virginia Company to attract colonists by promising parcels of land to immigrate to America.
What is the Headright System?
This Englishman created a process for curing tobacco ensuring economic success for Jamestown.
Who is John Rolfe?
These dictated that certain goods shipped from a New World port were to go only to Britain or to another New World port. They were intended as a weapon in England's ongoing struggle against its rival, Holland.
What are the Navigation Acts
This became the first proprietary colony to serve as a refuge for English Catholics. It also passed the Act of Toleration in 1649 which guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians in the colony, setting a precedence for the US Constitution.
Where is Maryland?
This trade system was created as a result of mercantilism in which merchants sold slaves in the Caribbean for commodities which were later sold in Europe and North America.
This was a conflict between King Charles I and the English Parliament which led to outright conflict between Royalist military forces and forces opposing Charles I.
What is the English Civil War?