Big Names
He was the first European viceroy of India.
Vasco Da Gama
Virginia leaders began to think slave labor was preferable to indentured servants because of this.
Bacon's Rebellion
This colony was the first haven for Puritans.
Massachusetts
The Spanish came to the new world to extract mostly this kind of wealth and send it back to Europe.
Gold and Silver
This was the cash crop in Virginia and Maryland.
Tobacco
His voyage was the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan
Toleration was a big deal in NY largely because of the prior influence of these people.
The Dutch
This colony was a haven for Quakers, and other minority religious groups.
Pennsylvania
The French came to the new world mostly to extract this kind of wealth and send it back to Europe.
Furs
This was the cash crop in North Carolina.
Lumber and tar.
He was the first European to recognize America as a continent.
Amerigo Vespucci
The first legislature in the New World was in this colony.
Virginia
This colony was a haven for Catholics.
Maryland
The Dutch founded a colony, New Amsterdam, on this island.
Manhattan
This was the cash crop in South Carolina.
Rice and Indigo
He was an indentured servant who raised a rebellion against the government of Virginia.
Nathanael Bacon
This is how horses and tomatoes came to America, and potatoes and corn went to Europe.
The Columbian Exchange
He was a Puritan who believed more in toleration, and had to found a new colony outside Massachusetts.
Roger Williams
The British were latecomers to colonizing because of this.
They were busy with domestic quarrels and problems.
This was the cash crop in Georgia.
Cotton
He was the Quaker who founded Pennsylvania.
William Penn
This was the first agreement regarding self-government in the new world.
The Mayflower Compact
Of New England, the Middle Colonies, or the South, this was the place where people of various religious groups were the most comfortable.
The Middle Colonies
The British thought this group were probably traitors, and were glad to see them leave England.
Puritans
Of New England, the Middle Colonies and the South, the area most suitable for growing cash crops.
The South