The Jamestown Colony
The person who the Jamestown colony was named after. This individual gave the Virginia Company a charter.
Who is King James I?
This person was chosen by the king of France to lead New France in the Americas. He knew that it was important to build good relationships with the Native Americans to promote trade and keep his colony safe from attack. He learned to speak Huron for this reason.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This is the reason that the Pilgrims left England for New Netherlands.
What is religious freedom/escaping persecution?
This person is who New Netherlands' name was changed to New York for.
Who is the Duke of York?
This area had a warmer climate than its counterpart, which helped the people to grow crops easily.
What is South Carolina?
This waterway had a very high salt content. If colonists drank from it, they would get very sick.
What is the James River?
Having control of this waterway would benefit New France because it gave them access to New Spain's territory. This was beneficial if the two countries ever fought against each other. Studying this river also benefitted New France's trading practices since they shipped a lot of goods through water travel.
What is the Mississippi River?
This is the reason the London Company agreed to pay for the Pilgrims' trip to New Netherlands.
What is the Pilgrims agreed to send back goods and resources to the London Company for them to sell?
Women in New Netherlands had this and Puritan and Pilgrim women did not.
What is more equal rights?
This area was often flooded, but the flooding actually helped make the fertile soil so that the people could grow things like tobacco.
What is the Tidewater area?
This person's leadership saved the colony of Jamestown. However, when he left, the colony nearly failed.
Who is John Smith?
This town had a really great environment and soil for farming in contrast to the rest of New France. Because of this, they used a lot of slave labor to farm the indigo, rice, and tobacco that was grown on plantations.
What is New Orleans?
This is the reason the Pilgrims created the Mayflower Compact.
What is the Pilgrims ended up in a place that they had not planned to?
This person experienced persecution in England for his religious beliefs. When he created his own colony, he wanted his people to have religious freedom so that they wouldn't experience the same thing he did.
Who is William Penn?
This area had more slaves because they had larger plantations due to all of the fertile farm land and large number of crops to be tended to.
What is the South?
This person was the daughter of Chief Powhatan. She saved John Smith from execution. Her marriage to John Rolfe brought peace between the colonists and the Powhatan people.
Who is Pocahontas?
This person became the governor of Louisiana at only 21 years old.
Who is Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville?
This is how the Pilgrims felt about Squanto.
What is grateful/thankful?
These are the democratic ideas that John Peter Zenger's trial established. These principles are still in place today.
What is trial by jury and freedom of the press?
African slaves often used this to help get them through the boring and exhausting work on the plantations.
What is music?
This was an agreement between two people, where one person would agree to work unpaid for predetermined amount of time, often in exchange for travel to the Americas. When the person's debt had been repaid, they were released as a free person.
What is indentured servitude?
This is one reason that the alliance between the Huron, Algonquin, and French people allowed for the Iroquois to be defeated.
What is their gun and weapons?
What is equal rights to men?
What is Philadelphia?
These were really harsh rules that gave plantation owners complete power over the slaves.
What are slave code restrictions?
This is a type of crop for the main purpose of making money.
What is a cash crop?
This person claimed Louisiana for France.
Who is La Salle?
This is the reason that the relationship between the Wampanoag people and the Pilgrims became bad.
What is settlers continued to arrive and tried to take the Wampanoag people's land?
You might learn about this person in English, Science, and Social Studies because of his works as an author, inventor, and his role in the founding of our nation.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This person had a plan to use Georgia as a place where people with debts could live to have a fresh start.
Who is James Oglethorpe?