Travel Tools
an invention that allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing
Compass
an explorer for Spain who discovered the Americas in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
a chief whose tribe occupied the land that the English settled at Jamestown
Pawhatan
An English settlement in North America where everyone dissapeared
Roanoke
a person who agreed to work for a period of time to pay off a debt
indentured servant
a tool invented by the Arabs that sailors used to determine their location
Quadrant
a Portuguese navigator who was the first to sail from Europe to India
Vasco da Gama
leader of Jamestown who was kicked out due to the fact that he forced the English to work
John Smith
an english colony in North America founded by the Separatists
Plymouth
French protestants who were forbidden to settle in America
Huguenot
a Portuguese constructed ship with large triangular sails
Caravel
a Portuguese navigator who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa
Bartolomeu Dias
Englishman who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
An English Settlement on the east coast where Puritans successfully established a community where they could live and worship God.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
true or false: a group of people who wanted to purify the Church of England by removing false teachings and practices are called Separatists?
false (correct answer is Puritans). Seperatists wanted to separate from the Church of England
to change the direction of a ship to head into the wind in a zig zag patterns.
Tacking
Bartolome de Las Casas
the second governor of Plymouth Colony
William Bradford
English colony in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, that was the first permanent settlement in America
Jamestown
The French settlement in the Aericas near what is now Newfoundland, Canada
New France
lines that run east to west around the globe (measure distance from equator)
latitude
a group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods.
Caravan
Governor of New Amsterdam who wanted all the people to attend the Dutch Reformed Church
Peter Stuyvesant
city founded in the Americas by the Dutch. Now known as New York City
New Amsterdam
Iberian Peninsula