Intro

Question 1

1492 :

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus : famous Italian navigator

Commissioned by Queen of Spain

Find different routes and precious products : spices,fragrances,silk

Spain wanted to have a monopoly

Trip=long(camels)/risky(robbed/attacked by bandits

3 boats : PINTA/NIÑA/SANTA MARIA

Safer n shorter route to Asia (INDIA) // they drifted and reached a place in AMERICA

+ people = Indians (mistakenly)

Question 2

INDIANS/NATIVE AM/

Answer 2

NATIVE AMERICANS called Aborigines

Called INDIANS by the Europeans // Asians

Question 3

1565

Answer 3

First permanent settlement before the English

Spanish : colony : Saint Augustin, Florida

Question 4

1607

Answer 4

First British settlement

Jamestown,Virginia

Commercial entreprise : many rich farmers = crow crops

Question 5

1620

Answer 5

Plymouth colony(Massachusetts)

Puritans = Conservative Protestant called Pilgrim Fathers

Religious freedom

Question 6

History PILGRIM FATHERS

Answer 6

HenryVIII : king of England :
Catherine of Aragon could not give him a boy
Despite the ban of the Church : he divorced =excommunicated

Britain : Catholic and Protestant
Mixed : the Anglican Church/ the Church of England

——> conservative : Puritans were offended+protested = persecuted

Boat : MAYFLOWER: North America

Question 7

1630

Answer 7

Arrival of thousand of Puritans

New colony : Massachusetts Bay Colony(Boston)