Vocabulary
This Spanish system forced American Indians to work for colonists in exchange for “protection.”
What is the encomienda system?
The English lost colony where only the word CROATOAN remained carved on a
What is Roanoke?
The first representative government in English North America, created in Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The Wampanoag leader who made a peace agreement with the Pilgrims.
Who is Massasoit?
The Pilgrims left England because they wanted this freedom.
What is religious freedom?
A person who agrees to work for someone for a set number of years in exchange for passage to America.
What is an indentured servant?
The explorer who sailed for France and mapped the St. Lawrence River. Found worthless rocks.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The Pilgrims promised to work together and make “just and equal laws” in this agreement.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The American Indian group that helped the Pilgrims during their first hard winter.
Who are the Wampanoag?
Jamestown began to succeed after this crop became Virginia’s first major money-maker.
What is tobacco?
This agreement, signed on a ship, promised self-government by the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He established the first successful French settlement at Quebec.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
The Puritan leader who wanted his colony to be “a City upon a Hill.”
Who is John Winthrop?
The French often formed alliances and traded furs with these groups.
Who are the Huron Indians?
Roanoke failed partly because the colonists ran out of this.
What is food (or supplies)?
A company with complete control over a trade—like the French fur trade companies.
What is a monopoly?
The English explorer who sailed for the Dutch up the river that now bears his name (His crew mutinied)
Who is Henry Hudson?
Unlike New England, this European colonial region gave very little self-government because the king ruled directly through a governor.
What is New France?
The Dutch and the Algonquin had this kind of relationship in New Sweden—peaceful and trading-based.
What is a friendly relationship?
The French and Dutch both focused on this profitable industry in North America.
What is the fur trade?
A person sent to another country to convert people to Christianity.
What is a missionary?
The explorers from many nations who searched for an ice-free water route above North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
People chosen by voters to speak for them in government.
Who are representatives?
This conflict, from 1609–1610, happened when Powhatan stopped trading with Jamestown, leading many colonists to die.
What is the Starving Time?
This was a major reason European nations fought over land in North America.
What are natural resources (or wealth)?