Coming to America
This European power dominated the natives in the Caribbean and southwest, then took all their gold.
Spain
(The Spanish)
Of all the things brought to the New World by Europeans, this was the most devastating to the Indians.
Diseases
In 1620, the Pilgrims agreed to the provisions of this famous social contract.
Mayflower Compact
I left Massachusetts and helped write the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
Thomas Hooker
Fur traders from this nation established trading posts along the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes.
France
(The French)
What was Columbus looking for when he discovered America?
Water route to Asia
Roger Williams founded this colony on the principle of separation of church and state.
Rhode Island
I founded Maryland as a safe haven for Catholics.
Lord Baltimore
(Cecil Calvert)
This colonial power was characterized by its frontier missions, large cities and encomiendas.
New Spain
(The Spanish)
La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France and called it -
Louisiana
Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts and formed this colony, because he believed voting should not be limited to male members of the Puritan church.
Connecticut
I was kicked out of Massachusetts and bought some land for a new colony called Rhode Island.
Roger Williams
This European power established its first permanent settlement in the New World at Jamestown in 1607.
England
(Great Britain)
Florida was originally colonized by this European power.
Spain
(The Spanish...New Spain)
Debtors and former criminals were welcomed to this new southern colony in 1735.
Georgia
I saved Jamestown when I figured out tobacco grows really well in Virginia. (Oh...and I married an Indian princess because of it!)
John Rolfe
New Amsterdam was the largest & most important city of this European colony in the New World.
New Netherland
This Spanish power couple financed Columbus on his voyage across the sea.
Ferdinand & Isabella
This document established that Connecticut would govern itself. It also created an elected assembly & gave the colony the right to raise money through taxation.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
I was the Indian chief who signed a treaty with the Pilgrims and celebrated the first Thanksgiving with them.
Massasoit