13 Colonies
This colony was founded as a safe haven for Catholics
What is Maryland?
One of the three main instruments that helped Columbus cross the ocean, this device told you your latitude
What is an astrolabe?
This settlement was founded by Pilgrims, though they were originally supposed to end up in Virginia.
What is Plymouth?
Although developed by the Portuguese, this type of ship was one of the three main instruments used by Columbus to cross the Atlantic for the Spanish and had sails that were specifically designed for long-distance trips.
What is a caravel?
This was the brutal voyage that brought enslaved cargo from Africa to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Middle Passage?
This colony was founded as a buffer zone between the rest of the colonies and Spanish Florida and as a place for debtors from England to begin anew.
What is Georgia?
These were the three ships Columbus crossed to the Americas with
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
This was the first successful English settlement in America
What is Jamestown?
This type of colony was one ruled directly by the king and where he had all the decision-making power
What is a Royal Colony?
This Viking leader is believed to be the first European to step foot in America
Who is Leif Erikson?
This Quaker leader founded Pennsylvania as a safe haven for those of his religion facing persecution in England
Who is William Penn?
This is the continent that Columbus was initially trying to reach, and one he died believing he had.
What is Asia?
This was the first self-governing assembly in the New World, founded in England's first permanent settlement
What is the House of Burgesses?
This Catholic king famously attacked England because he wanted to make all of Europe Catholic
Who is Phillip II
This dutch colony and its main city eventually were taken by the English and renamed New York and New York City
What is New Netherland and New Amsterdam
This was the main cash crop of Virginia and North Carolina
What is tobacco?
This is the name that Columbus ignorantly gave to the Native Americans he found when he first landed in America
What are Indians?
This term is used to reference the devastating winter of 1609-1610 that had Jamestown residents even resort to cannibalism.
What is starving time
This type of colony was funded by investors who pooled their money and sponsored the founding of a colony in the hopes that they would make a profit
What is a Joint Stock or Charter colony?
This document was the first written constitution on American soil
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This guy believed heavily in religious freedom and would go on to found the colony of Rhode Island after fleeing Massachusetts.
Who is Roger Williams
The arrival of Columbus brought forth the introduction of the Columbian Exchange, which brought various plants, animals, people, and diseases from the Old World to the New World and vice versa. Which group in the New World suffered the most as a result of the Columbian Exchange?
Who are Native Americans
The first English attempt to make a permanent settlement in America happened here, where its residents went mysteriously missing and only left the word "Croatoan" carved on a tree
What is Roanoke Island?
This event signaled the end of Spain's rule as the leading world power on the seas and in the New World and the beginning of Britain's time on top.
What is the Spanish Armada
These two separate groups both founded colonies in New England but had very different ideas about the Anglican Church
Who are the separatists and the puritans?