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American history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Christopher Columbus | Italian sailor who was determined to find the Orient but found North America instead 1492 |
| The three ships that belonged to Christopher Columbus | Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria. |
| Indians that were in North America | Mayas, Aztecs, Incas. |
| King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella | They helped fund Christopher's trip to the Orient. |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian merchant explorer proved that the new lands were not the Orient. America was named after Vespucci. Amerigo. |
| Vasco de Balboa | Crossed the Isthmus of Panama 1513 |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Circumnavigation of the earth. 1519-22 |
| Hernando Cortez/Francisco Pizarro | They conquered the Inca and Aztec. They replaced the Aztecs with New Mexico. |
| Line Of Demarcation | In 1493 the Roman pope drew an invisible line dividing the world in half. |
| Sea Dogs | A group of bold and daring English sea captains. Pirate posers. |
| Sir Francis Drake | 1570s plundered spanish ships. |
| Jacques Cartier | found the St. Lawrence River. |
| Robert de La Salle | Claimed the Mississippi river and part of the land around it. |
| Huguenots | French protestants. They were forced to flee France because of religious persecution. |
| John Cabot | Laid claim to the Atlantic coast of North America 1497. |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | An english nobleman organized colonizing expeditions. |
| Jamestown | The first settlement. Near the Virginia coast. May 1607. |
| John Smith | A soldier that helped Jamestown survive. |
| House of Burgesses | The first representative government in America. Began meeting in Jamestown 1619 |
| 6 Reasons the English went to America. | 1. Profit 2. Ownland 3. Employment 4. Political freedom 5. Religious freedom 6. Adventure. |
| Joint stock companies | Companies that helped colonies get started. |
| Charter Colonies | Had regulations governing where the colony would be located . |
| Proprietary Colonies | Were given to individuals or groups by the king. The men who received these colonies from the kind were called proprietors. |
| Royal colonies | Direct supervision of the king. |