European Exploration And Settlement Flashcards
Columbus
The first person to set foot on AmericaOn 1492
Dias
Explored the coast of Africa
Las casas
Wrote about the treatment of the American Indians
John Smith
Made the Jamestown colonists work
John Winthrop
The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony who wanted the community to be a model of Christian love
Peter Stuyvesant
Governed new Netherland
Pope
Declared that the Indians are humans with souls
Powhatan
The chief of several woodland tribes in the Chesapeake Bay Area
Puritans
The people who wanted to change the church of England by removing a false teachings and practices
Separatists
The people who want to start their own churches and kept apart from the church of England
Vasco da Gama
What is the first person to sail from Europe to India
Jamestown
English found this colony but many of the colonist wouldn’t work
Massachusetts Bay colony
Set up a Congregational church government
New Netherland
Governed by PeterStuyvent
Plymouth
Colony where a patuxet Indian taught the pilgrims how to grow their fFood
Compass
Allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing
Caravan
A group of traders who traveled together to trade their goods
Indentured servents
People who paid for their voyage to the New World by working for others to pay the deBt
Quadrant
Invented by arrabs that was used by sailors to determine Their location
English
People were motivated to start colonies for religious reasons Because English cities had become wicked
