The American Pageant, 13th Edition
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| 903194468 | Great Ice Age | A time when the sea levels lowered, exposing a land bridge that allowed a passage for different peoples to cross over to the new land | 1 | |
| 903194470 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Spain and Portugal made a treaty line that split the new world | 2 | |
| 903194472 | Bartolome de Las Casas | He wrote the destruction of the Indies. He thought that what the Native Americans were going through was horrible and he was even more horrified when he saw the effects the diseases from England had on the Natives. He was also appalled at the idea of the encomienda system. | 3 | |
| 903194474 | Ponce de Leon | A Spanish conquistador that explored Florida, thinking at first that it was an island. He was seeking gold, but was killed by an Indian arrow before he found any. | 4 | |
| 903194476 | Francisco Coronado | He was on a quest to find the golden cities that ended up being Adobe Pueblos (1540-1542) He discovered the grand canyon and enormous herds of bison. | 5 | |
| 903194478 | Hernando de Soto | He went on a gold seeking expedition during 1539-1542 with 600 men. He discovered the Mississippi river. | 6 | |
| 903194480 | Hernando Cortes | He conquered the Aztecs and their capital, Tenochtitlan | 7 | |
| 903194481 | Francisco Pizarro | He conquered the Incas of Peru in 1532 | 8 | |
| 903194482 | Mestizos | People who were of mixed European and Indian (Native American) heritage. | 9 | |
| 903194483 | Joint-stock company | the "forerunner" or the ancestor/original modern corporation. It was perfected by the early 1600's | 10 | |
| 903194484 | John Smith | He was a young adventurer who had saved Virginia from failure and whipped the "gold-hungry" colonists into shape. | 11 | |
| 903194485 | Pocahontas | She was a Native American who "saved" John Smith during a mock execution. She became the negotiator between the Natives and the Settlers | 12 | |
| 903194486 | Virgina Company | a company that allowed people from England who were coming over to the new lands to come over as indentured servants | 13 | |
| 903194487 | House of Burgesses | An assembly summoned by the Virginia settlers and authorized by the London Company | 14 | |
| 903194488 | Proprietor | The owner of a business, etc. | 15 | |
| 903194489 | Primogeniture | laws that stated only the eldest sons were eligible to inherit land | 16 | |
| 903194490 | James Oglethorpe | He was a soldier/ statesman who was keenly interested in prison reform | 17 | |
| 903194491 | John Calvin | He created his own religion called Calvinism and developed the idea of Predestination | 18 | |
| 903194492 | Separatists | People who had separated from the commonly accepted church and teachings. | 19 | |
| 903194494 | Mayflower Compact | An agreement to form a crude government in which the majority must be obeyed | 20 | |
| 903194498 | Great English Migration | Seventy-thousand refugees had left England in the 1630's due to continuing turmoil in England | 21 | |
| 903194500 | Anne Hutchinson | The mother of 14 children. She challenged the Puritan belief of predestination. | 22 | |
| 903194502 | Roger Williams | A Salem minister, and an extreme separatist; he wanted to completely separate from the Church of England. | 23 | |
| 903194504 | John Winthrop | The first governor of the Bay colony. | 24 | |
| 903194505 | William Bradford | He was a self-taught scholar who was elected governor thirty-three times | 25 | |
| 903194506 | Pequot War of 1637 | A war between the Puritans and the Indians that lasted four decades. | 26 | |
| 903194507 | King Philip's War | King Phillip had formed an alliance with the Indians and started attacking English villages. In the end however, more Indians were killed than colonists and King Phillip was beheaded. | 27 | |
| 903194508 | The "elect" | The people who were chosen by predestination to go to heaven. | 28 | |
| 903194509 | Quakers | People who defied the authority of the Puritan clergy | 29 | |
| 903194510 | Covenant | An agreement between a church and it's adherents (disciples) | 30 | |
| 903194511 | Indentured servants | People who came to new England under a contract saying they had to work for the Virginia company for a certain amount of years. | 31 | |
| 903194512 | Headright system | A system that both Maryland and Virginia established to encourage the arrival of more workers. | 32 | |
| 903194513 | Bacon's Rebellion | A rebellion where approximately a thousand Virginians broke out and attacked the Indians, chased Burkeley out of the town and burned the capital. | 33 | |
| 903194514 | Middle passage | The part of the slave trade that brought slaves from Africa to the New World | 34 | |
| 903194515 | Planter Class | Men who owned plantations and had indentured servants or "white slaves" | 35 | |
| 903194516 | The Scarlet Letter | A book mainly about the letter "A" that convicted adulterers had to wear on their clothing. | 36 | |
| 903194517 | Jeremiad | a new form of sermon used in the Puritan churches that scolded parishioners for waning their faith | 37 | |
| 903194518 | Half-Way Covenant | it modified the old covenant by having the children of existing members admit to baptism but not full communion | 38 | |
| 903194519 | Salem Witch Trials | a time when people (mostly women) were being lynched because they were accused of being a witch and bewitching adolescent girls | 39 | |
| 903194520 | Leisler's Rebellion | a rebellion that was caused due to the want for separation of classes. It was in New York from 1689-1691 | 40 | |
| 903194521 | Jonathan Edwards | He was a pastor with a strong belief that salvation can be achieved through good works and that there should be a need for complete dependence on God's will. One of his most famous sermons was titled "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." | 41 | |
| 903194522 | Cotton Mather | He was a Puritan clergy man and an avid scientist who had become frustrated with Boston resident's opposition to vaccination during the smallpox epidemic. | 42 | |
| 903194523 | The Great Awakening | a religious revival that happened in the 1730's and 1740's | 43 | |
| 903194524 | Phyllis Wheatley | a slave bought to Boston at eighteen years old and a poet. She was able to overcome her disadvantaged background and write some of the best poetry of the time. | 44 | |
| 903194525 | Poor Richard's Almanack | a book containing many different virtues that gave witty advice to people both young and old | 45 | |
| 903194526 | Zenger decision | The decision to not convict Zenger for assailing a governor in a newspaper. It served as a "banner achievement" for freedom of the press | 46 |
