vocabulary 1
what is a road or waterway that people travel to buy, sell, or exchange goods?
a trade route
Who was Christopher Columbus known for?
They were trying to find Asia and ended up in North America
What is another word for independence?
Freedom
Who did Spanish priests teach their religion to?
Indigenous Peoples
Who left Spain with a crew and three ships in August 1492?
Christopher Columbus
what is an explorer?
someone who travels to learn about new places
What explorer explored the eastern coast of North America?
Champlain
What is a colony?
A community that belongs to a distant country
What country ruled the American colonies for 150 years before America got their freedom?
Great Britain
Who was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo?
An explorer that searched the Pacific Coast of North America?
What do we call the people who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts (that came after the Indigenous Peoples)
Pilgrims
What did Thomas Jefferson do?
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
What is a community that is built around a church?
A mission
What 3 things did the Wampanoag Indigenous Peoples help Pilgrims do?
plant, hunt, and fish
Name 3 things that Benjamin Franklin was:
an author, inventor, and a leader
Why did Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson have to leave their colony?
They were forced to leave because of their religious beliefs
What was written in 1787?
The constitution
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo helped found what state?
California
Where did leaders meet to discuss why Americans should be free?
Philadelphia