Vocabulary
What is the business of buying and selling goods?
Commerce
Jamestown
British
What word came to English from Greek, and means "rule by one?"
Monarchy
Which Native American helped teach the Pilgrims how to plant corn and survive in Plymouth?
Squanto
A person who goes on a religious journey.
Pilgrim
A long period without rain.
Drought
St. Augustine, Florida
Spanish
Which Dutch colony would eventually be created at the base of Hudson River?
New Amsterdam
Which King of England gave the Virginia Company the power to allow investors the chance to buy shares and make money on the company?
James I
What was the name of the ship that brought Pilgrims to Cape Cod?
The Mayflower
A crop used for sale, not for use by the people who farm it.
Cash crop
New Amsterdam
Dutch
King James gave power to investors who created which company in Jamestown?
The Virginia Company
Which famous French explorer formed a trading post at what now is the city of Quebec?
Samuel de Champlain
People who left England so they could practice religion freely were known as...
Puritans
Someone who agrees to work without pay for someone else for a set time.
Quebec
French
Jacques Cartier traveled up which waterways leading from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?
St. Lawrence Seaway
Which British explorer eventually sailed for the Dutch and helped discover what became known as New Amsterdam?
Henry Hudson
What was the name of the agreement about how the pilgrims would govern themselves?
Mayflower Compact
A grant from the government that gave a Spanish settler the right to control local Native Americans.
Encomienda
Plymouth
British and Dutch (Pilgrims)
Peninsulares, Creoles, and Mestizos were part of which countries "class structure?"
New Spain
Which French explorer led a team of French and Native Americans all the way to the mouth of the Mississippi River (where New Orleans is today)?
Robert de La Salle
In what year was the first Thanksgiving celebrated?
1621