Chapter 2 Test Flashcards
A tool invented by the Arabs that sailors used to determine their location
quadrant
A group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods
caravan
An invention that allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing
compass
Who explored the coast of Africa for Portugal?
Dias
Who set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492?
Columbus
Who wrote about the treatment of the American Indians?
Las Casas
Who made the colonists at Jamestown work in the fields?
John Smith
Who governed New Netherland?
Peter Stuyvesant
The first person to sail from Europe to India was [blank].
Vasco da Gama
It was declared that Indians were humans with souls by the .
pope
The English founded the colony [blank] but many of the colonists would not work.
Jamestown
To pay for their voyage to America, many people became indentured [blank].
servants
The people who wanted to change the Church of England by removing the false teachings and practices were called [blank].
Puritans
The people who started their own churches and kept apart from the Church of England were called [blank].
Separatists
A Patuxet Indian taught Pilgrims to grow food in the [blank] Colony.
Plymouth
