Virginia
Theories behind where this lost colony went include disease, warfare, and even alien abduction!
What is Roanoke?
Who were the first Massachusetts colonists?
Who are the Pilgrims or the Separatists?
This period of mass hysteria resulted in rampant accusations of witchcraft and many executions.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
This practice, often confused with slavery, involved 5 to 7 years of free labor in exchange for passage to the New World.
What is indentured servitude?
This ship set sail with the Mayflower, but proved not to live up to its name when it sprang a leak and had to return to port.
What was the Speedwell?
She was also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe.
Who is Pocahontas?
This food, while synonymous with modern Thanksgiving, was nowhere to be seen on the first Thanksgiving.
What is turkey? (or potatoes)
These two methods were used to execute accused witches during the Salem Witch Trials.
What are hanging and pressing with stones?
This colony was also known as the "Holy Experiment"
What is Pennsylvania?
This city was known for prematurely sending Pocahontas to her grave.
What is Gravesend, England?
This crop both saved the Jamestown colony and killed millions of people.
What is tobacco?
This holiday, while first celebrated in the 17th century by the Plymouth colonists, was not made official until 1863.
What is Thanksgiving?
Hate-Bad, Increase, Cotton, Exercise, and Fight-The-Good-Fight-of-Faith are notable examples.
What are Puritan names?
This colony, founded by Roger Williams, served as a safe haven for religious dissidents like Anne Hutchinson.
What is Rhode Island?
These two Christian holy days were banned in Puritan New England.
What were Christmas and Easter?
This Native American confederacy ruled the Virginia area where Jamestown was established.
Who are the Powhatan?
This war between the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag featured Native Americans and colonists on both sides.
What is King Philip's War?
These are the only four holidays that Puritans were allowed to celebrate.
What are Training Day, Commencement Day, Election Day, and Thanksgiving?
These were the three types of colonies.
What is a royal colony (ruled directly by the king), a charter colony (ruled by a company while maintaining English laws and regulations), and a proprietary colony (ruled as its own state by a proprietor).
This aptly named Quaker rebel died via execution in the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Who was Mary Dyer?
This period from 1609 to 1610 resulted in 3/4 of the Jamestown colonists starving to death and at least one instance of cannibalism.
What was the Starving Time?
The Separatists created their own colony to defy this state mandated church, established by King Henry VIII in order to gain a divorce.
What is the Church of England?
This Puritan leader served as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He notably hated democracy and religious tolerance.
Who was John Winthrop?
These are 5 examples of the 13 original colonies.
What are New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and Georgia.
This speech was quoted by several U.S. presidents, despite being written by John Winthrop- a man who hated democracy and religious freedom.
What is the "City on a Hill" speech?