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VOCABULARY
WHO WAS THAT PERSON?
New Netherland
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What year did Columbus "discover" The Americas (really the Bahamas)?
Columbus "discovered" The Americas in 1492.
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What were the first towns called long ago?
The first towns were called COLONIES.
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Who was John Smith?
John Smith was the leader of the businessmen at Fort James.
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How were the Jamestown settlers and the Dutch settlers who started New Netherland alike?
The Jamestown settlers and the Dutch settlers who came to America were businessmen. They wanted to make $$$$.
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What year did the Englishmen arrive in what we refer to as Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and began to build James Fort
In 1607, the settlers arrived to start the building of James Fort which became Jamestown, the first permanent colony.
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What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Mayflower Compact is the laws that the Pilgrims made and agreed to follow before they got off the ship.
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Who were the Powhatans and what did they have to do with Jamestown?
The Powhatans were a Native American tribe who lived in what we call Virginia today. The tribe was named after their leader, Chief Powhatan. They made their houses from bark and wood. They hunted for food and grew corn. The Powhatans helped the settlers from Fort James learn skills to survive.
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What year did the Dutch claim the land along the Hudson River as their property?
The Dutch hired Henry Hudson, an English seaman, to sail to America and claim the land along the present day Hudson River for the Dutch in 1609. However, the new colonists did not arrive in New Netherland until 1624.
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What year did the Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock near Boston, Massachusetts?
The Pilgrims arrived in 1620 at Plymouth Plantation
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What were MISSIONS?
MISSIONS were towns led by priests who wanted to teach religion to the people who lived there and worked there.
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Who was Pocahontas?
Pocahontas was the daughter of Chief Powhatan. She was kidnapped by the Jamestown settlers, married John Rolfe (a white settler from Jamestown), and they had a son together.
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What was the name the Dutch gave to this new land they claimed in America in 1609?
The Dutch called the land New Netherland.
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How were the settlers from Jamestown different from the Pilgrims?
The settlers from Jamestown were businessmen wanting to find riches in the new land. The Pilgrims wanted to leave for religious freedom, adventure, land, and a new way of life.
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What does CONVERTED mean?
Converted means to change your religious beliefs. That is what the missions wanted to do. They wanted the Indians to convert from their religion to another religion.
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Who were SAMOSET AND SQUANTO?
Samoset and Squanto were Native Americans from the Wampanoag Tribe. Squanto helped teach the Pilgrim survival skills - how to hunt, grow crops, fish, etc..
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What did the Native Americans use to trade with the Dutch Europeans?
The Native Americans gave the Dutch beaver furs. At that time, Europeans were crazy for beaver fur to use for hats and warm clothes.
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What crop did the settlers from Jamestown grow that made them lots of money when they sent it back to England to sell?
Jamestown settlers grew tobacco
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What is a PLANTATION?
A plantation is a large farm where crops especially cotton, are harvested and cared for by the workers who live there.
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Why did the settlers of Jamestown kidnap Pocahontas?
The settlers kidnapped Pocahontas because the knew Chief Powhatan would not attack Jamestown and risk hurting his own daughter. The settlers were right.
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What year did the Dutch claim New Netherland (the land along the present-day Hudson River in New York) as their land?
In 1609, the Dutch East India Company hired Henry Hudson, an English seaman to sail to America. He claimed the land for the Dutch. However, the first colonists did not arrive in New Netherland until 1624.
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