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Question 1

wrote about the marvels of the Orient

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Marco Polo

Question 2

The Caribbean island that Columbus made his first landing in the New World

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San Salvador

Question 3

Military invaders from Spain

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Conguistadors

Question 4

The first permanent European settlement in the United states

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St. Augustine

Question 5

Permanent French settlement in Canada that was established by Samuel de Champlain

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Quebec

Question 6

Translated the Bible into English

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John Wycliff

Question 7

This is where English businessmen obtained money to establish a settlement

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Joint-stock companies

Question 8

Saved Jamestown from the failure of the common-store system

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John Smith

Question 9

This crop became very important to the economic development of Jamestown

Answer 9

Tobacco

Question 10

A representative assembly acted as an advisory body to the governor of the Virginia colony

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House of Burgesses

Question 11

English-speaking Indian that lived in Plymouth, acted as a guide and interpreter, and taught the Pilgrims how to hunt and fish

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Squanto

Question 12

The first institution of higher learning in America

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Harvard College

Question 13

Made it so that all towns of at least fifty families were required to hire a teacher so children could learn to read and write

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Olé Deluder Satan Act

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“apostle to the Indians”

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John Eliot

Question 15

The precedent that the New England Confederation set for the colonies

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Voluntary union of the colonies

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A colony controlled by a nobleman

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Proprietary colony

Question 17

This act granted freedom of worship to all professing Christians living in the Maryland colony

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Toleration Act

Question 18

Searched for the fountain of youth

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Ponce de León

Question 19

Discovered the Pacific Ocean

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Vasco de Balboa

Question 20

Identified the lands which Columbus had discovered as a “New World”

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Amerigo Vespucci

Question 21

Conquered the Aztecs

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Hernando Cortés

Question 22

Discovered the Mississippi River

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Hernando de Soto

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Helped the English defeat the Spanish

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Francis Drake

Question 24

Hoped to “purify” the Church of England

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Puritans

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Known as the “city of brotherly love”

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Philadelphia

Question 26

Founded the settlement of Hartford

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Thomas Hooker

Question 27

The first Baptist church in America was founded here

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Rhode Island

Question 28

today known as New York

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New Netherland

Question 29

Members of the Society of Friends

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Quakers

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The “Great Migration” brought thousands of these people to New England

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Puritans

Question 31

Established by Sir Walter Raleigh

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Roanoke

Question 32

the first permanent English settlement in the New World

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Jamestown

Question 33

Founded by Lord Baltimore as a haven for English Catholics

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Maryland

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The governor of Pennsylvania also controlled this colony

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Delaware

Question 35

Intended as a settlement for debtor prisoners

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Georgia

Question 36

John Winthrop was the first governor of this colony

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Massachusetts Bay

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Colony made of Separatists and “Strangers”

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Plymouth

Question 38

Posted the Ninety-five Theses, sparking the Protestant Reformation

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Martin Luther

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The type of building that the Swedes introduced to the New World

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Log cabin

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The name of the ship which carried the Pilgrims to the New World

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Mayflower

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Wrote the “History of Plymouth Plantation”

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William Bradford

Question 42

Founded the colony of Rhode Island

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Roger Williams