| A | B |
|---|
| reached the southern tip of Africa while trying to reach India | Bartholomew Dias |
| reached India by sailing around Africa | Vasco da Gama |
| explored Mexico, conquering the Aztecs | Hernando Cortés |
| explored western South America, conquering the Incas | Francisco Pizarro |
| Explored the West Indies, the Caribbean and northern South America thinking he was in Asia | Christopher Columbus |
| reached the Pacific Ocean by crossing Panama | Vasco Nunez de Balboa |
| led the first voyage around the world | Ferdinand Magellan |
| explored the east coast of the Americas, calling it a "New World" | Amerigo Vespucci |
| explored the waters surrounding New York City and northern Canada | Henry Hudson |
| explored the St. Lawrence River Valley | Jacques Cartier |
| a waterway through the Americas to Asia | Northwest Passage |
| English sailor and pirate who attacked Spanish merchant ships | Sir Francis Drake |
| leader of the Protestant Revolution | Martin Luther |
| led the first attempted settlement at Roanoke Island | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| led the second attempted settlement at Roanoke Island | John White |
| captain that restored order to the settlement of Jamestown | John Smith |
| English settler that brought tobacco to the colony of Jamestown | John Rolfe |
| daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indians | Pocahontas |
| 50 acres of land given to each settller that paid for their own journey to America | headright |
| worked for 4-7 years in exchange for passage to America | indentured servant |
| first representative government in America, located in the colony of Jamestown | House of Burgesses |
| company that invested in and controlled the colony of Jamestown | Virginia Company |
