Key Vocabulary
To travel around the world
What is circumnavigate?
He is given credit for being the first European explorer to find the "New World"
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was the first SUCCESSFUL European colony in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut & New Hampshire
What are the New England Colonies?
The trading of slaves and goods between the American Colonies, Europe and Africa
What is the triangular trade?
His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This colony was settled by Puritan pilgrims in 1620.
What is Plymouth?
What are the Middle Colonies?
The journey of slaves from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to the American Colonies.
What is the Middle Passage?
Hernan Cortes conquered this Ancient civilization.
This is the location of the Jamestown colony.
What is Virginia?
What are the New England Colonies?
English colonies formed on charters from the King / Semi-independently governed
What is a proprietary colony?
This explorer went on 4 voyages in search of the Northwest passage.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The Puritan Pilgrims traveled to the New World on this boat.
What is the Mayflower?
What are the Southern Colonies?
The background knowledge of a historical event
Juan Ponce de Leon was searching for this mythical object?
What is the Fountain of Youth?
This was the FIRST colony in the New World that disappeared mysteriously.
What is the Roanoke colony?
This area was mostly settled by the French and Spanish.
What is the backcountry?