| A | B |
|---|
| Prince Henry | portegese navigator, interest in sailing |
| Diaz | showed water route to india, ssailed around coast of Africa |
| DeGama | 1st to sail to India and to show there was a water route to India |
| Vespuci | wrote about finding of America but dated his things 10 years earlier then when it actually happened later America was named after him |
| Magellan | sailed around world and proved it was round |
| Raliegh | planted an english colony -Virgina colony (named after Queen Elizabeth) at Roanoke Island |
| Drake | Sea dog(pirate) robed Spanish of gold and second to sail around the world |
| Ericson | pioneer, viking, first to find amercia during dark age, not recorded and didn't get credit |
| Columbus | got credit for finding america sailed for Spain, landed on sal salvader |
| pizarro | peru, illiterate soldier who was stirred with rumors of rich cities on Pacific Coast of SA, conquistador |
| cortes | conquistador, made spain wealthy |
| Pilgrims | settle in Pylmoth- have 1st Thanksgiving |
| Puritains | found massachutets Bay colony |
| penn | Quacker, King, owed his dad debt and got it from the king |
| Sea Dogs | pirates who robbed ships |
| Spanish Armada | ultimate weapon for Spain, controls sea, ends up sinking |
| Jamestown | 1st permanent settlement by English Colony, founded by London company, tobacco caused it to succeed |
| Greenville | British minister of finance, determined to make everyone pay taxes, write of assistance, admorally courts |
| Washington | first president, revelotionary war, leader of contential army, plan was to attack on Xmas morning, Virgina colony, Ft. Duchensque |
| Jefferson | wrote dec of independance, revelotionary war, |
| Franklin | he helped get French aid, |
| marion | fought south, gorilla war, aka swamp fox |
| st leger | invade by Lake Onterio, and Mohawk River, |
| howe | moved up Hudson river from nyc, went to philly, |
| burogoyne | south from montreal defeated at saragota(turing pt. of war) |
| cornwallis | defeat yorktown, chase Marion, south general |
| trenton | after christmas cross delaware |
| saragota | burgoyne defeated, gives confidence to colonists, aid from france |
| charlestown | big british victory, invade south |
| yorktown | wash plan- french navy (degrasse) takes army, marches outside ny 2 virgina (3 weeks) |
| stamp act | grenwallidea, colonists opposed cuz it was direct tax |
| Boston Tea Party | didn't want to pay tea tax, throw tea overboard, |
| Dec of Indep. | beg- preamble(intro), 2- rights- gov theories * most imp. men are created equal, 3- list of grivenances- crimes king commited, 4- resolution- usa (first menitoned) |
