Week 5 Review Flashcards
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists