The People/Places/Events Matching Sections for Chapters 1 and 2 in The American Pageant (15th Edition) Guidebook.
1614978135 | Ferdinand and Isabella | Financiers and beneficiaries of Columbus's voyages to the New World | 0 | |
1614978136 | Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquerors of great Indian civilizations | 1 | |
1614978137 | Lake Bonneville | inland sea left by melting glaciers whose remnant is the Great Salt Lake | 2 | |
1614978138 | Dias and de Gama | Portuguese navigators who sailed around the African coast | 3 | |
1614978139 | Christopher Columbus | Italian-born explorer who thought that he had arrived off the coast of Asia rather than on unknown continents | 4 | |
1614978140 | Malinche | female Indian slave who served as an interpreter for Cortes | 5 | |
1614978141 | Moctezuma | powerful Aztec monarch who fell to Spanish conquerors | 6 | |
1614978142 | Hiawatha | legendary founder of the powerful Iroquois confederacy | 7 | |
1614978143 | Tenochtitlan | wealthy capital of the Aztec empire | 8 | |
1614978144 | Saint Augustine | founded in 1565; the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the United States territory | 9 | |
1614978145 | Giovanni Caboto aka John Cabot | Italian-born navigator sent by English to explore North American coast in 1498 | 10 | |
1614978146 | Junipero Serra | Franciscan missionary who settled California | 11 | |
1614978147 | Bartolome de Las Casas | Dominican friar who sympathized with Indians and protested cruel Spanish policies in the New World | 12 | |
1614978148 | Powhatan | Indian leader who ruled tribes in the James River area of Virginia | 13 | |
1614978149 | Walter Raliegh & Humphrey Gilbert | Elizabethan courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies | 14 | |
1614978150 | Roanoke | failed colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh | 15 | |
1614978151 | John Smith | Virginia leader saved by Pocahontas | 16 | |
1614978152 | Virginia | colony that established the House of Burgesses as the first representative government in 1619 | 17 | |
1614978153 | Maryland | colony originally founded as a haven for Roman Catholics | 18 | |
1614978154 | Lord De La Warr | harsh military governor of Virginia who employed Irish tactics against the Indians | 19 | |
1614978155 | John Wesley | British founder of the Methodist Church who served for a time as a missionary in colonial Georgia | 20 | |
1614978156 | Lord Baltimore | the Catholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow believers | 21 | |
1614978157 | South Carolina | colony that turned to disease-resistant African slaves for labor in its extensive rice plantations | 22 | |
1614978158 | North Carolina | poorer colony that was called "a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit" | 23 | |
1614978159 | Georgia | colony originally founded as a refuge for debtors by philanthropists | 24 | |
1614978160 | James Oglethorpe | philanthropic soldier-statesman who founded the Georgia colony | 25 | |
1614978161 | Elizabeth I | the unmarried ruler who established English Protestantism and fought the Catholic Spanish | 26 | |
1614978162 | Jamestown | riverbank site where Virginia Company settlers planted the first permanent English colony | 27 |