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This is the year that Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
What is 1492?
This Portuguese explorer sailed around the tip of Africa to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This was the term for non-separatists that voyaged on the Mayflower.
What are strangers?
This Viking landed in North America around the year 1000.
Who is Leif Ericson?
This colony was founded as a haven for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
This is the year the movable-type printing press was invented
What is 1440?
This explorer had two continents named after him for discovering that they were, in fact, new continents.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This is an imaginary line that separated Portuguese territory from Spanish territory.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
This was the first English child born in the present-day United States.
Who is Virginia Dare?
This colony was founded as a haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This is the year Jamestown was founded.
What is 1607?
This explorer was the first man to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This was the first representative form of government in America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This man was the first Pilgrim governor of Plymouth.
Who is John Carver?
This colony was named for Queen Elizabeth I.
What is Virginia?
This is the year the Massachusetts Bay colony was founded.
What is 1630?
This explorer discovered the Mississippi River.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
This was an act passed in Maryland in 1649 granting religious freedom to any professing Christian.
What is the Toleration Act?
This man taught the colonists of Jamestown to grow tobacco.
Who is John Rolfe?
This colony was founded as a benevolent endeavor.
What is Georgia?
This is the year John Cabot explored the east coast of the United States for England.
What is 1497?
This explorer searched for Northwest Passage for England.
Who is Sir Martin Frobisher?
This is the oldest road in the United States
What is El Camino Real?
This pope defined the Line of Demarcation.
Who is Pope Alexander VI?
This colony was originally a Dutch colony under the name "New Netherland."
What is New York?