Definition 1 of 42
explored the Mississippi Basin; named Louisiana after the French king, Louis XIV
Samuel de champlain
Vascu nunez de Balboa
Robert de la Salle
Jacques cartier
Definition 2 of 42
an Italian sea captain who was under contract to England's King Henry VII; explored the coast
of Newfoundland in 1497
John Cabot
Jacques Cartier
Christopher Columbus
Henry Hudson
Definition 3 of 42
pooled the savings of people of moderate means and supported trading ventures that
seemed potentially profitable; a practical method for financing the costly and risky enterprise
of founding new colonies
proprietorship
joint-stock company
british east india company
royal colony
,Definition 4 of 42
established a tobacco industry in the Jamestown colony; developed a new variety of tobacco
which became very popular in Europe and brought financial prosperity to the colony
John Cabot
Sioux; Pawnee
Captain John Smith
John Rolfe; Pocahontas
Definition 5 of 42
led a group of about a thousand Puritans in 1630 to the Massachusetts shore and founded
Boston and several other towns
John Winthrop
Captain John Smith
John Cabot
Henry Hudson
Definition 6 of 42
an Italian sailor after whom the land Columbus explored was named
Ferdinand Magellan
Amerigo Vespucci
Francisco Pizarro
Christopher Columbus
,Definition 7 of 42
Italian-born explorer who won the backing of Isabella and Ferdinand for a voyage west from
Europe to the Indies; originally landed in the Bahamas but believed he had found a western
route to Asia
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Francisco Pizarro
Christopher Columbus
Definition 8 of 42
founded by a group of Separatists that wanted to organize a completely separate church; then
operated by the Virginia Company of London
Plymouth colony
John winthrop
Massachusetts bay colony
Royal colony
Definition 9 of 42
the first representative assembly in America; organized by Virginia's colonists just 12 years after
the founding of Jamestown; guaranteed colonists the same rights that they had in England,
including the right to be represented in the lawmaking process
Bill of Rights
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Virginia House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
, Definition 10 of 42
system in which the king of Spain gave grants of land and Native Americans to individual
Spaniards; the natives had to farm or work in the mines, and the fruits of their labor went to
their Spanish masters, who had to "care" for them
columbian exchange
henry hudson
treaty of tordesillas (1494)
encomienda system
Definition 11 of 42
a colony under the control of a king or queen; Virginia was England's first of this type
royal colony
charter colony
plymouth colony
joint-stock company
Definition 12 of 42
Prince of Portugal; sponsored voyages of exploration that eventually succeeded in opening
up a long sea route along South Africa's Cape of Good Hope
Henry the Navigator
Ferdinand Magellan
Francisco Pizarro
Christopher Columbus
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