exploration
This French explorer traveled through the Canadian coast in the 1530s.
Jacques Cartier
French Protestants who faced religious persecution in Catholic France.
Huguenots
A legal document that gave a company permission to establish a colony.
charter
This Native American leader was the father of Pocahontas.
powhatan
This English king approved the Virginia Company’s charter.
james l
French explorers who traveled by canoe through North America in search of furs.
coureurs de bois
This document gave French Protestants limited religious freedom.
Edict of Nantes
This English company was created to establish colonies in North America.
the virginia company
This Native American woman became associated with the Jamestown settlement
Pocahontas
This English colonist helped establish Jamestown and was known for his leadership.
captian john smith
This English explorer became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
sir francis drake
The major religious movement that challenged the Catholic Church in Europe.
Protestant Reformation
The first permanent English settlement in North America was established here in 1607.
jamestown
This Native American confederacy united several nations in the northeastern region.
iroquois confederacy
This colonist developed a successful method of growing tobacco in Virginia.
john rolfe
This English settlement disappeared without explanation and became known as the “Lost Colony.”
Roanoke island
This religious group included many English Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England.
puritans
A business owned by investors who shared the costs and profits.
joint stock company
The first conflict between the English settlers at Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy.
First Anglo-Powhatan War
This English king granted land to the Virginia Company and helped promote colonization.
james l
This Spanish fleet was defeated by England in 1588.
spanish armada
This term describes the division of Europe between Catholic and Protestant Christianity.
Protestant Reformation
This system gave the oldest son the right to inherit the family’s property.
primogeniture?
The later conflict between English colonists and the Powhatan Confederacy that ended with English expansion.
second Anglo-Powhatan War
This English nobleman became an important supporter of the Jamestown colony and served as governor of Virginia.
lord de la warr