15. As a commodity with an ever-expending mass market in Europe ____________________ became Virginia’s substitute for gold.

8. Baron Montesquieu

1. Primary Source

5. Mayflower Compact

13. Not until the reign of ___________________ did the English turn their attention to North America.

20. ____________________________ was required to abide by the English Toleration Act of 1690 – that is, to allow all Protestants to worship freely.

7, English Bill of Rights

10. At the beginning of the fifteenth century, one might have predicted that ___________________ would establish the world’s first global empire.

11.____________________________ believed that by sailing westward he could relatively quickly cross the Atlantic and reach Asia.

23. As late as 1812, _____________________ founded Fort Ross, only 100 miles north of San Francisco.