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HIstory7th-test 1
| Columbus discovered America.... | October 12, 1492 |
| Believed to have landed in America around AD 1000 | VIKINGS |
| Revived interest in trade with the East through a series of wars | CRUSADES |
| Place in the New World where Columbus landed | West Indies |
| Reason the crusades were fought | Europeans wanted to take back Holy Land from Muslims |
| Word meaning REBIRTH | Renaissance |
| The most important invention of the late Middle Ages | PRINTING PRESS |
| A Biblical revival started by Martin Luther in 1517 | REFORMATION |
| Name of the Document Martin Luther nailed to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany | 95 Thesis |
| Another name for the NEW WORLD | The Western Hemisphere |
| King and Queen who sponsored Columbus's voyage to the New World | Isabella and Ferdinand |
| 2,000 mile chain of islands between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean | The West Indies |
| Who was the first to realise that what Columbus had discovered was a new continent | AMERIGO VESPUCCI |
| Spanish Conquerors are also called... | Conquistadors |
| Set out to find the fountain of Youth | Ponce De Leon |
| First permanent European/Spanish settlement in what is now the United States | St. Augustine |
| Led and expedition that proved that the world was round | Magellan |
| Conquered the Aztec Indians of Mexico | CORTES |
| First permanent FRENCH settlement in the New World | QUEBEC |
| Spanish Explorer who discovered the Grand Canyon | CORONADO |
| Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River | Hernando De Soto |
| Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas of South America | Pizarro |
| The much searched for water routes trough North America to the Pacific which does not exist | Northwest Passage |
| Reason the Northwest Passage does not exist | Rocky Mountains |
| French explorer who discovered the St. Lawrence River | Jacques Cartier |
| Father of New France | Samuel de Champlain |
| Canada, the Great Lakes region, and the Mississippi River Valley | New France |
| The first European country to settle land in America | Spain |
| This became the source of wealth for the French in the new World | FURS |
| Columbus's three ships which voyaged to America | Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria |
| First English child born in America | Virginia Dare |
| The only clue/word found related to the Lost Colony of Roanoke | CROATOAN |
| Monarch who called for a Bible to be placed in every English church | Queen Elizabeth 1 |
| First permanent ENGLISH settlement in America | JAMESTOWN |
| Required each man to place the fruit of his labor in storehouse; failed socialism | Common Store |
| Man who introduced tobacco to Virginia | John Rolfe |
| Indian Princess who aided the colonists at Jamestown | Pocohantes |
| Means the government leaves individuals free to own businesses and make a living dependent on their own initiative | Free enterprise |
| Virginia Cash Crop; brought profit to the colony | Tobacco |
| First Englishman to claim land in the New World (1497) | John Cabbot |
| Leader of Jamestown; "He that will not work, shall not eat" | John Smith |
| Company which was to settle Southern Virginia | London |
| To set and example that lasts or to do something for the first time | precedent |
| Second Governor of Plymouth who served for 36 years and wrote History of Plymouth Plantation | William Bradford |
| First governor of Plymouth | John Carver |
| Representative government in the Virginia Colony | House of Burgesses |
| Signed by 41 men who agreed to work together for the good of the Plymouth Colony | Mayflower Compact |
| He acted as a guide and interpreter for the Pilgrims teaching them how to hunt, fish, and plant crops | SQUANTO |
| Dissenters who wanted to withdraw completely from the Church of England | Separatists |
| Ship that carried the Pilgrims to America | Mayflower |
| Year Jamestown was founded | 1607 |
| Year the Pilgrims arrived in America | 1620 |
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