apush summer vocab 1 Flashcards
Opened the New World to Europe with multiple journeys to the Caribbean
Columbus
Colony run by 1 private person—-Pennsylvania = William Penn = Quaker
Proprietary Colony
People who wanted to separate from the Church of England (Anglican Church)
Separatists/Pilgrims
Wanted to purify the Church of England of everything Catholic
Puritans
1st leaders of Plymouth Colony
Myles Standish / John Carver
Standish
military leader of Plymouth Colony
Carver
the first governor that died soon after settlement in 1621. he was replaced by bradford.
Renaissance
Flowering of art, culture, and humanism in Western Europe
Henry the Navigator
Portuguese Prince who funded aviation and sailing, exploration in the New World wasn’t possible without him starting it.
Balboa
Spanish explorer that reached and named the Pacific Ocean
Magellan
He led the first voyage to circumnavigate the world but died in the Philippines. His crew finished the rest of the voyage.
Cortes
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire.
Pizarro
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire.
Henry Hudson
Explored coast of NY and Atlantic for the Dutch and English
Champlain
French explorer that conquered eastern Canada (French Canada = Quebec/Montreal)
Joint Stock Company
Group/pool of private investors who put up money to find New World colonies
Jamestown (1607)
First permanent English settlement in colonial America
John Smith
Second leader of Jamestown that prevented it from dying
John Rolfe
Colonist of Jamestown that married Pocahontas and created modern tobacco
Royal Colony
Colony that is run by a Royal Governor
William Bradford
Early leader of Plymouth who left diaries describing society
Mayflower Compact
First set of English laws in Colonial America
John Winthrop
Governor of Mass Bay Colony who envisioned a “City on a Hill”
Massachusettes Bay Colony
Largest colony and Puritan theocracy (government with religious leadership)
Great Migration
First mass movement of Europeans to the New World