Final part 1 Flashcards
(22 cards)
First man to attempt to go around the world
Magellan
Founded America for Europe (explorer)
Columbus
Founded Florida
Ponce de Leon
First sailor from Europe who tried to go around Africa
Dias
Claimed everything that touched the West Coast
Balboa
Claimed northern section of America for England
John Cabot
Explored Mississippi territory (European)
De soto
Started exploration by writing books about it
Marco Polo
Printing press (Printed first books)
Gutenberg
First man to create school for sailors
Prince Henry
First man to make maps of America
Amerigo Vespucci
Leader of Jamestown that said “don’t work, don’t eat”
John smith
Connecticut
Thomas Hooker
Georgia
James Oglethorpe
Pennsylvania
William penn
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Anne Hutchison
First academy, newspaper, almanac- Albany Plan of Union
Ben Franklin
Set up the lost colony: Roanoke
Sir Walter Raleigh
Taught colonists how to make a living
Squanto
First roads to Cumberland gap (Ohio territory)
Daniel Boone
First governor in the colonies
William Bradford
Caught in the French and Indian war, president of Constitutional convention, fought in revolutionary war as leader, and first president of the United States
George Washington