Columbus first landed in 1492 on the island of _______________________.
The oldest, permanent European settlement in North America is __________________________.
Between 1534 and 1541 the French explorer, ________________________, sailed up the St. Lawrence river and made claims for France.
In the Spanish territories from Chile to Mexico by the end of the 16th century, the aboriginal population had declined by approximately ______%.
In 1521 _____________________ led a victorious Spanish assault upon Montezuma and the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan.
Thomas More's treatise imagining and justifying colonization, Utopia, was published in the year ________.
The English colonization of Roanoke was documented in the written account of ______________________ and the paintings of ______________________.
The Englishman who tried to establish a colony in Guiana in 1596 was ________________________.
The French explorer, ___________________, wrote about the possible profits from the fur trade in Canada in the 1610s.
In 1607 the Virginia Company sent 144 men and boys to establish the settlement in the Chesapeake known as ____________________.
In 1624 the ______________ began the colonization of the island of Manhattan.
Approximately 21,000 English people crossed the Atlantic during an era known as _____________________ between 1630 and 1642.
In 1634 the __________ family established a Catholic colony known as _______________________.
The Massachusett, Wampanoag, Abneki, and Quinnipiac Indians belonged to the linguistic group known as ______________________.
The confederation of Iroquois Indians known as the Five Nations included the tribes _________________, ___________________, ___________________, ____________________, ____________________.
Opechancanough was the successor of ___________________ and led two wars against the English in the years ___________ and ___________.
Many of the same investors who backed the colony of Massachusetts Bay also backed a venture to settle the Caribbean island of __________________ in the 1630s.
The colony which delivered the most wealth to England in the 17th century was _______________________.
Samoset, the Indian who greeted the Pilgrims and Particulars at Plymouth colony in 1620, spoke to them in the _________________ language.
The transatlantic slave trade, until it ended ca. 1870, resulted in the transportation of an estimated ________________________ Africans from their homelands to the Americas.
Colonial Culture. True or False. If false, correct the statement.
New England Puritans believed that salvation depended upon a Covenant of Works.
When the Mayflower arrived in New England in 1620 there was a mutiny by the group called the Particulars who forced the Pilgrims to sign the Mayflower Compact.
During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, Indians joined with colonists to overthrow the Virginia government.
Jacob Leisler led a rebellion in New York during the Glorious Revolution.
The Half-Way Covenant was a measure undertaken by Puritan ministers in 1662 to replenish membership in the churches of New England.
The Dominion of New England eventually incorporated all of the British colonies in North America.
Enslaved Africans made up a majority of the people living in Virginia and the Carolinas by 1680.
Small pox inoculation was introduced to Boston in 1721 by an enslaved African who had heard of the practice in Africa.
Yale College was founded in 1701 to serve as an alternative to Harvard, which radical ministers thought was becoming too conservative and pro-monarchy.
Charles II gave William Penn a proprietary colony for Quakers in order to convert the Indians.
King Louis XIV forced many Huguenots to flee to America when he issued the Edict of Nantes.
The Iroquois formed a strong alliance with the French against the English during Queen Anne's War.
The first newspaper published in English in North America appeared in Philadelphia in 1691.
Seventy percent of all white colonists living in British North America before 1740 were Congregationalists.
The Great Awakening was an intellectual revival inspired by French philosophers.
George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards traveled throughout the Americas preaching the doctrine of the inner light.
The Albany Congress of 1754 was the first inter-colonial meeting of the British colonies to protest the Stamp Act.
In 1750 the wealthiest European power was the Netherlands.
The sex ratio among whites in the Chesapeake in 1700 was 6 men for every 1 woman.
Colonial women embraced a role after the revolution as Republican Mothers.
