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A promise to do something

Pledge

Devotion or loyalty

Allegiance

Writings

Documents

Is freedom

Liberty

We do not have to be afraid to say what we believe

Freedom of speech

We can print things in books and newspapers for everyone to read and think about

Freedom of the press

We can freely meet together in churches and other meetings

Freedom of assembly

Go to any church, free to read the Bible for themselves and openly worship God

Freedom of religion

The story of what happened in the life of a country of people

History

A large mass of land

Continent

People who study the earth

Geographers

Largest bodies of water

Oceans

The study of the earth surface

Geography

Name given to Europe after America was discovered

Old World

Name given to America

New World

Name the seven continents

Europe. Asia. Africa. Australia North America. South America. Antarctica

The one man who thought he knew what the surface of the Earth looked like

Christopher Columbus

The merchant who had traveled east to China and had visited Khan (the ruler of China)

Marco Polo

Italian sailor who discoveredAmerica in 1492

Christopher Columbus

The three ships used on Columbus's first voyage

Nina Pinta Santa Maria

King g and queen of Spain who financed Columbia's voyage

Ferdinand and Isabella

Name Columbus gave to the people of the New World because he thought he was in India

Indians

Sea going Scandinavian people

Vikings

Viking. Who was the first European to visit America

Leif Ericson

Explored who claimed North MDRICA FKR England in1497

John Cabot

Explored who wE first to call AMERICA A NEW. WORLD

America Vespucci

Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the top of Africa

Vasco da Gama

Spanish explorer who claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain and named it Great South Sea

Vasco de Balboa

First European to explore the land that is now the United States; explored and named Flordia

Ponce de Leon

Island in the west Indies where Columbus first landed

San Salvador

Vikings name for America

Vinland

The Aztec's ruler

Montezuma

Set out to conquer Mexico or to win it by force

Hernando Cortes

Indians felt like the Spaniards were

White gods come to.visit them

Conquered Mexico

Cortes and his men

After Cortes conquered Mexico it became a

Spanish Colony

The French and English hoped to

Find a sea route through America

Cartier did three important things for France

1- opened a way for valuable fur trade between the French and the Indians


2- Made a lasting and valuable friendship between the French and the Indians


3- his explorations gave France claim to part of the New World

Clay pueblos

Indian villages

Indian tribe that lived in Mexico

Aztecs

Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztecs

Hernando Cortes

French explorer who.hoped to find a waterway through North America to the Pacific Ocean

Jacques Cartier

Spanish explorer who explored throughout the Southwest and discovered the GRAND CANYON

Francisco dead Soto

Spanish explorer who discovered the MISSISSIPPI RIVER

Hernando Dr Soto

English sea captains who raided Spanish boats

Sea dogs

Famous sea dog

Sir Francis drake

French h explorer who discovered Quebec

Samuel Dr Champlain

Fabled cities which Coronado searched for but never found

Seven Cities of Cibola

Area where Coronado discovered the GRAND Canyon

Arizona

Greatest American River discovered by De Soto

MISSISSIPPI River

First permanent European settlement in the United States, the first lasting Spanish settlement in the New World

St Augustine

Name first given to Canada

New France

First successful French settlement in the New World

Quebec

Ruled England

Queen Elizabeth I

3 powerful countries now claimed land in the New World

England, Spain, and France

Who helped to found the first permanent French settlement in the New World?

St. Augustine