History Test 4
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- Europe
- continent responsible for settlement of the New World
- Catholics
- Maryland's founder intended the colony to be a refuge for these people
- Indian Ocean
- ocean between Africa and Australia
- North America
- continent that contains Canada, Mexico, and the United States
- Harvard
- first college in America
- John Cabot
- first man to claim land for England in the New World
- James Oglethorpe
- man who founded the colony of Georgia
- Paul Revere
- famous American silversmith and patriot
- George Whitefield
- preacher who started the first orphanage in America
- Quebec
- first French settlement in the New World
- Australia
- continent with only one country
- San Salvador
- place where Christopher Columbus first landed
- New France
- first name given to Canada
- 13
- number of original colonies
- John Smith
- leader of Jamestown who made people work for their food
- Pacific Ocean
- ocean the touches the west coast of the United States
- Christopher Dock
- Mennonite schoolteacher who wrote the first school manual in America
- Atlantic Ocean
- ocean that touches the East Coast of the United States
- Mayflower
- boat the pilgrims came to America on
- Amerigo Vespucci
- first person to realize that America was a New World
- Asia
- continent Columbus was trying to reach
- Mayflower Compact
- document Pilgrims used to govern themselves
- Quakers
- Pennsylvania was a refuge for these people
- William Penn
- man who founded the colony of Pennsylvania
- Africa
- continent Vasco de Gama sailed around from Portugal to Asia
- New York
- the English, French, and Dutch all claimed this colony
- a dame school
- place where many colonial children began their education
- St. Augustine
- first Spanish settlement in the New World
- Antarctica
- continent at the bottom of the world
- Plymouth
- first Pilgrim settlement
- Arctic Ocean
- most northern ocean
- Roger Williams
- man who founded the colony of Rhode Island