| A | B |
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| Peregrine White | First child born on the Mayflower in America |
| Virginia Dare | First English child born in America |
| John White | He was a cartographer and drew a map depicting sea monsters in 1590 (Virginia Dare would know) |
| Francisco Pizarro | He conquered the Incas, (first and last name) |
| Hernando Cortes | He conquered the Aztec, (first and last name) |
| Quakers | Also known as the Society of Friends, they felt everyone was equal. (I wonder if they liked oatmeal?) |
| John Smith | Hated leader in Jamestown, he was friends with Powhatan's daughter. |
| Elizabeth I | Queen who gave a charter for Sir Richard Grenville to colonize America |
| Separatists | Also known as Pilgrims, they separated from the Church of England |
| Puritans | They did not want to leave the Church of England but only wanted it "purified" of all the Catholic customs |
| Georgia | James Oglethorpe and 35 families, many who were outlaws and debtors settled this last colony. |
| Lord Baltimore | He and the king thought it was a capital idea to come to America to practice the Catholic religion in Maryland. |
| Mayflower Compact | The male Pilgrims created and signed this document in 1620; it is thought to be the first official separate government in America. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | treaty that divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain. |
| Amerigo Vespucci | America is named for this person who proved Columbus did not make it to India but instead "discovered" a new world. |
| Columbian Exchange | the movement of living things between the Eastern and Western hemispheres |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | explorer for France who became the first European to visit present day North Carolina |
| conquistador | Spanish adventurers who sailed from the Caribbean islands west to the mainland. (also known as conquerors) |
| Aztecs | Tenochtitlan was the capital of which empire? |
| Charles II | Gave land to 8 Lords Proprietors in gratitude for helping to restore him to the throne of England. |
| Walter Raleigh | Friend to Queen Elizabeth I, he funded the trip to Roanoke |
| Protestant Reformation | Period during which the church split into two groups with the second group breaking away from the Catholic faith. |
| Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon | Spanish explorer who unsuccessfully led the only Spanish attempt to colonize North Carolina |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | Spanish explorer who claimed Florida for Spain while searching for the fountain of youth |
