John Cabot: Italian explorer and the first European to discover North America in 1497.
Giovanni Verrazano: Italian explorer who explored the American in the service of the king of France.
Jacques Cartier: Explorer who claimed Canada for France.
Jamestown, 1607: 1st permanent English settlement.
Walter Raleigh: Helped in the colonization of Jamestown.
Croatoan: Indian tribe from Croatoan Island.
Indentured Servitude: Immigrants coming to America to work as laborers.
Wahunsonacock: Indian tribe.
Powhatan: Indian tribe.
Ferdinand Magellan: Portuguese explorer who tried to find a westward route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia.
John Rolfe: 1st successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop. Husband of Pocahontas.
Puritans: Religious group wanting more purity.
Mayflower Compact: 1st governing document of Plymouth Colony.
William Bradford: Military commander of the Plymouth forces.
John Winthrop: Led a group of English puritans to the New World.
The Great Migration: 7 million African Americans out of Southern United States to the North, Midwest, and the West.
Anne Hutchinson: Unauthorized puritan minister of a dissident church. Pioneer settler in Massachusetts Bay.
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