| A | B |
| Spanish; conquered Incas | Pizarro |
| Spanish; found Florida | Ponce deLeon |
| Viking explorer; found Vinland | Leif Ericson |
| Portugal; found the Cape of Good Hope | Dias |
| Portugal; went around Africa to Asai | DaGama |
| circumnavigated the globe | Magellan |
| Spain; discovered San Salvador | Columbus |
| Spain; crossed the isthmus of Panama | Balboa |
| Spain; conquered Aztecs | Cortes |
| English pirate | Drake |
| founded a colony in NC; it disappeared | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| provided Jamestown colony leadership | John Smith |
| sent Spain's Armada against England | King Phillip |
| queen that wanted England to become great under her reign | Elizabeth I |
| Virginia's first cash crop | tobacco |
| where the "lost colony" was located | North Carolina |
| first elected legislature in the New World | Virginia House of Burgesses |
| pilgrim's agreement of self-government | Mayflower Compact |
| granted religious freedon to all Christians living in Maryland | Toleration Act of 1649 |
| people who worked for a number of years to pay for passage to New World | indentured servants |
| English pirates who raided Spanish ships and settlements | sea dogs |
| colony founded as a refuge for Catholics | Maryland |
| colony founded for prisoners | Georgia |
| founded as New Netherland | New York |
| founded by the Swedish | Delaware |
| founded as a colony for Quakers | Pennsylvania |
| was banished from Massachusetts for heresy | Anne Hutchinson |
| unhappy Puritan that helped settle Rhode Island | Roger Williams |
| founded Georgia | James Oglethorpe |
| founded by a group of noblemen | Carolina |