People
This Algonquin speaking woman married a tobacco farmer and became the most celebrated woman in England before dying at 21.
Who is Pocahontas?
This was the first successful English colony in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
This item gives you royal authority, with the stroke of a pen.
What is a charter?
In this year Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
What is 1492?
This one-word cryptic message was left behind on a tree at Roanoke.
What is Croatoan?
Notable for telling fantastic stories, this adventurer named "New England" and saving Jamestown...but not before escaping slavery and execution.
Who is John Smith?
The Lost Colony. 1580s.
What is Roanoke?
A large fleet of Spanish ships.
What is an Armada?
In this year, "...we sailed the open sea, for Glory, God & Gold & the Virginia Company"
What is 1607.
The first English Child born in the New World.
Who is Virginia Dare?
The Governor of the lost colony, this man was delayed by the Spanish Armada for three years and never found his family.
Who is John White?
The ship on which the Pilgrims arrived.
What is the Mayflower?
Aside from Tobacco & Cotton, this third cash crop became a major source of money in Europe.
What is Sugar?
Stamped on the side of a giant stone, this year was when the Puritans arrived in Massachusetts.
What is 1620?
If you asked a Pilgrim why they came to the New World, they would give you this two-word answer.
The son of an Indian Princess and a Virginian Planter, this man also traces his ancestry back to a powerful chieftain.
Who is Thomas Rolfe?
The capital of England.
What is London?
The dark era in Jamestown History, where hunger left only 60 of the 500 alive.
What is the Starving Time?
This decade (10 year period) was the time of the dreaded Spanish Armada, and the future of England.
the 1580s
The inspiration for future documents and the first set of American laws for Americans.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This man was given the charter by the King to settle the New World for England. The capital of North Carolina is named for him.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
This colony and rock share a name. Thanks Pilgrims.
What is Plymouth?
This is what it was called when English Investors offered money to fund voyages to the New World...in exchange for profit.
What is a Joint-Stock Company?
The Pilgrims arrived in this month, not a great time for planting.
What is December?
Aside from the "Saints", this was the other group that settled alongside them and brought their talents to the New World.
Who are the Strangers?