People Dates Colonies TermsMisc

This explorer subdued the Aztecs around 1521?

Hernándo Cortés

This woman was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her religious views? She later set up a new colony in what would become Rhode Island.

Anne Hutchinson

This person delivered the speech “A Model of Christian Charity” to his fellow shipmates in 1630?

John Winthrop

This Spanish explorer discovered Florida for Spain in 1513?

Ponce de León

This Indian leader allegedly spared John Smith’s life at the request of his daughter?

Powhattan

This was the year that the Pilgrims on the Mayflower founded Plymouth Colony?

1620

In this year Popé lead the Pueblos in rebellion against the Spanish?

1680

This was the year that Jamestown was founded?

1607

This was the year that African slaves were first imported into what would become the United States?

1619

This was the year that St. Augustine, the oldest European- founded city in the present day United States was founded by the Spanish?

1565

This colony was created by uniting smaller colonies founded by dissenters from the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Rhode Island

This colony was named after Elizabeth I?

Virginia

This colony _____, was originally named _____ by the Dutch before the English renamed it after the King’s brother?

New York New Netherland

This colony was a proprietary colony granted to help pay off the king’s debts, it was considered a “holy experiment” by its founder?

Pennsylvania

This was a proprietary colony granted to George Calvert (and later his son Cecil Calvert)?

Maryland

One of the Spaniards who traveled to the Americas as an explorer and conquered Native Americans in the 16 th century?

Conquistadores

A system in which Spanish authorities granted colonial landlords the service of Native Americans as forced laborers?

Encomienda System

A person who has contracted to work for someone else for a set period of time, often in exchange for travel expenses, shelter, and food.

Indentured Servant

Spanish settlers, mostly men, who were born in Spain but moved to the New World. They were considered the top of Spanish colonial society.

Peninsulares

The Virginia Company’s policy of granting 50 acres of land to each settler and to each family member who accompanied him?

Headright System

This group of people wanted to purify the Church of England of Catholic traditions?

Puritans

A conflict between the years between New England colonists and Native Americans under the command of Metacom?

King Philip’s War

This man is credited with saving Jamestown for implementing the philosophy of “he that will not work, shall not eat”?

John Smith

This man attacked Native Americans in Virginia and then lead a rebellion against Governor Berkeley in 1676?

Nathaniel Bacon

Spanish priests gathered Native Americans into large communities in New Mexico called?

Congregaciónes