European Explorers
He sailed for Spain in 1492, trying to reach Asia, but instead landed in the Caribbean.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This country wanted to colonize America to gain wealth, natural resources, and compete with other European powers.
What is England?
He founded Pennsylvania as a safe place for Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
This tool used the stars to help sailors determine their location at sea.
What is the astrolabe?
This Caribbean people were the first to encounter Columbus in 1492.
Who are the Taino?
He explored Canada for France and claimed the St. Lawrence River region.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This ship was faster and easier to maneuver.
What is a Caravel ?
This group first settled Massachusetts to practice their religion freely, but still wanted to reform the Church of England.
Who are the Puritans?
This agreement, signed aboard a ship in 1620, created self-government for the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Group in Northeastern America/ upstate New York?
Who are the Iroquois?
He explored the American Southwest while searching for the Seven Cities of Gold.
Who is Francisco Vásquez de Coronado?
What is some items Europeans acquired from the Americas?
Tobacco, Corn, Tomato, Potato, Cacao
This group, also known as Separatists, signed the Mayflower Compact before settling in Plymouth.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This system forced enslaved Africans across the Atlantic in horrific conditions.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This group, also called Separatists, sailed on the Mayflower to Plymouth for religious freedom.
Who are the Pilgrims?
His Crew was the first to sail around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
What was the side of Africa called in the Triangle Trade route?
What is the Gold Coast?
He founded Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts for supporting religious freedom and separation of church and state.
Who is Roger Williams?
The Southern Colonies’ economy was based mainly on these labor-intensive crops grown on plantations.
What are tobacco, rice, and indigo?
More accurate maps, the astrolabe, the magnetic compass
What tools became available to Europeans that helped them explore the world?
He sailed for England, explored the coast of North America, and claimed land in Canada for England.
Who is John Cabot?
A global transfer of people, goods, ideas, and diseases.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
He founded Maryland as a safe haven for Catholics.
Who is Lord Baltimore?
This 1494 treaty divided newly discovered lands in the Americas between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
An economic theory holding that a nation's power is dependent on its supply of Gold and Silver.
What is Mercantalism?