Vocabulary
People
Exploration
The Colonies
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100

poor immigrants who paid for their trip to the colonies by agreeing to work

indentured servants 

100

Italian mariner who looked to find a new route to China

Christopher Columbus

100

What made exploration desirable and possible?

scientific advances 

100

What was the first successful English colony?

Jamestown

100

Who was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic?

Amelia Earhart

200

three-part trade between Europe, Africa, and North America

Triangular trade 

200

where we got the term "America" from 

Amerigo Vespucci 

200

What is traveling to an unfamiliar area to learn more about it?

exploration 

200

What was significant about the Roanoke Colony?

It "disappeared" and nobody knows what happened to it 

200

What is the largest organ in the human body?

skin

300

brutal 2+ month long sea journey by slave ships from Africa to the Americas

Middle Passage

300

launched the first European voyages of exploration

Prince Henry the Navigator 

300

What century did exploration begin?

15th 

300

What three regions of English colonies eventually emerged?

New England, Middle, Southern 

300

How many provinces does Canada have?

10

400

__________ wanted to purify the Church of England, while ___________ wanted to completely separate from the Church of England

Puritans; Pilgrims 

400

conquered the Aztec Empire 

Hernan Cortes 

400

What nation was the first nation to go venturing off into the Atlantic?

Portugal 

400

What caused the populations of the colonies to rise?

immigration

400

What Netflix show takes place in Hawkins, Indiana?

Stranger Things

500

document that was an agreement that the people would elect a leader and agree to obey its laws

Mayflower Compact 

500

first explorer to sail around the entire globe

Ferdinand Magellan 

500

This was when plants, animals, and microorganisms were mixed and dispersed between Native Americans and European explorers.

The Columbian Exchange 

500

What colony was seen as a rare safe haven for religious toleration?

Rhode Island 

500

What singer is the goddaughter of Dolly Parton?

Miley Cyrus