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Which country sponsored Columbus’s voyages?
Spain
What did Ponce de Leon discover in his search for the fountain of youth?
Florida
Who wrote History of Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford
What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?
Jamestown
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What were the names of Columbus’s three ships?
What nation established a prosperous fur trade in the New World?
France
Who discovered the Mississippi River?
Hernando de Soto
Who is remembered as the “Father of New France”?
Samuel de Champlain
What was the first permanent European settlement in the New World?
St. Augustine
What was the name of the ship that the Separatists and the Strangers used to travel to the New World?
Mayflower
In which present-day country did the Aztecs live?
Mexico
Who was responsible for the first voyage around the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
Who introduced the raising and curing of tobacco to the Virginia colony?
John Rolfe
Who was the first Englishman to sail around the world?
Sir Francis Drake
What were the two types of local government used in the colonies?
Town and County
In which present-day country did the Incas live?
Peru
For whom was the New World named?
Amerigo Vespucci
Who was the pastor of the Scrooby Congregation?
John Robinson
What was the first permanent settlement by the French in the New World?
Quebec
What way of life is based on the ownership and use of land?
feudalism
What colony was founded in 1732?
Georgia
Who established the colony of Roanoke?
Walter Raleigh
Who translated the Bible into the language of the Algonquin Indians?
John Elliott
What was the first institution of higher learning in British North America?
Harvard College
What theory stated that the only form of government sanctioned by God was an absolute monarchy?
divine right of kings