Part I. THE AGE OF DISCOVERY
Mesoamerica the Bering Strait Clovis blades
mammoth mastodon The Ice Age
Archaic Period Poverty Point the Anasazi
Cahokia Mississippian Culture Tenochtitlan
Leif Eriksson Prince Henry the Navigator Martin Luther
Christopher Columbus San Salvador conquistadores Ferdinand Magellan John Cabot encomienda
Henry VIII Giovanni da Verrazano the Incas
John Calvin Hernan Cortes the Aztecs
Francisco Pizarro Sir Francis Drake La Salle
Vasco Nunez de Balboa Henry Hudson Adena Culture
Juan Ponce de Leon Francisco de Coronado Hernando de Soto the Spice Trade Paleolithic revolution Jacques Cartier Columbian Exchange Treaty of Tordesillas maize
Neolithic revolution The Hohokam Brazil
Hopewell Culture Requerimiento Aztalan
How and when did the first humans arrive in the Americas? How did they survive in a very hostile environment?
What role did the cultivation of corn play in the cultural development of the original Americans?
What impact did the arrival of Europeans have on the Native Americans in the New World?
Where there differences in the attitudes and policies of the Spanish, French, and English towards the Native Americans?
What were the factors that contributed to the discovery and exploration of America?
Which European has the strongest claim for reaching America prior to Christopher Columbus? Why didn't this earlier explorer's discovery lead to a permanent European presence in America while Columbus's discovery did?
What was the purpose of Christopher Columbus' voyage, and what miscalculations did he make in his theory for traveling to the Far East?
How did America get its name?
Part II. COLONIZATION
Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Humphrey Gilbert John Smith
Jamestown London Company Separatists Mayflower Compact George Calvert Harvard
William Penn St. Augustine Puritans
Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Pocahontas William Bradford Opechancanough Squanto
Plymouth Company James Oglethorpe Quakers
Proprietary Colony New Amsterdam Pilgrims
Act of Toleration headright tobacco
John Winthrop Salem Witch Trials rice
Indenture System House of Burgesses indigo
Elizabeth I Sir Francis Drake The Armada
Martin Frobisher Richard Hakluyt Philip II
Royal Colonies New Sweden John Rolfe
James I The Protestant Reformation Powhatan
Peter Minuit The Anglican Church Charles I Joint Stock Companies predestination Roanoke The Triangular Trade
How did the Protestant Reformation influence the English effort to establish colonies in America?
How did the English colonial system differ from those of France and Spain?
What were the differences in the founding, development, and characteristics of the Southern, New England, and Middle Colonies that constituted the thirteen English colonies along the Atlantic seaboard?
Why was Jamestown the first successful English colony in North America?
How did Massachusetts serve as the mother colony for the other New England colonies?
What were the methods employed by the colonists to obtain laborers to work in America?
How and why was slavery introduced in England's North American colonies?
Why did the Salem Witch Trials occur, and what were their results?
What were the unique factors that led to the founding of Georgia, the last of the English colonies to be established?
How did the English colonies deal with the issue of religious freedom?
What were the functions of the colonial assemblies during the colonial era?