American Republic Chapter 1 Activity 5

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Robert de La Salle

Frenchmen that claimed the Mississippi river and the land it drained for France

House of Burgesses

first representative government in America

Florida

future state first explored by Juan Ponce de Leon

indentured servants

gained passage to the colonies in return for a period if servitude

St. Augustine

oldest city in the present United States

Philip 11

the strongest champion of Roman Catholicism in Europe

Jamestown

English settlement named for the king

Ronaoke

English settlement that mysteriously disappeared

Sir Walter Raleigh

Englishman who tried to colonize Roanoke Island

Huguenots

a French Protestants

Totem Poles

carved from wood and depicted legends and events

Powhatan

chief of the Woodland Indian tribes near Jamestown

Leif Ericson

discovered the strange island of Vinland

Francisco de Coronado

explored up into present-day Kansas and discovered the Grand Canyon

Invincible Armada

invasion fleet sent to destroy England

New France

land around the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River that was rich in furs

Mounds

made of earth and filled with weapons, pottery, and jewelry

Religious Freedom

motive for settlement that distinguished the British colonies from many other European colonies

Great Lakes Region

region explored by Samuel de Champlain

The Plains

region where Indians lived in tepees, hunted buffalo, and were excellent horsemen

Queen Elizabeth I

secretly encouraged pirating raids on the Spanish

Amerigo Vespucci

suggested that Columbus had discovered a New World

Samuel de Champlain

the Father of New France

"starving time"

winter of 1609-10 when Jamestown was devastated by famine


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