Roanoke and Jamestown
What is the winter of 1609-1610 was called?
What is "the starving time?"
What is the name of a ship that the Pilgrims boarded?
What is the Mayflower?
What is England's King Charles's brother's name that named the New York colony?
What crop does Virginia tend to plant?
What is Tobacco?
What is debtors?
What are Those who had debts that could be imprisoned if they were unable to pay what they owed?
Who did England's Queen Elizabeth give the right to claim in North America?
What is Sir Walter Raleigh
How did almost half the Pilgrims die in their first winter in America?
What is the area that is under Dutch control?
What is New Netherland or New Amsterdam?
Why did Sir George Calvert found Maryland?
To pay for their passage to America, they agreed to work without pay for a certain length of time.
What is indentured servants?
The scouts made an enthusiastic report of a place called Roanoke Island. This island lies off the coast of what is now called?
What is North Carolina?
Those who sought to set up their own churches were known as what?
What are Separatists?
Why did King Charles give the land to William Penn, a wealthy English Quaker?
What is the payment for a debt King Charles owed Penn's father?
What name of the boundary line that map the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
People opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes.
What are Pacifists?
Who did John Rolfe marry?
What is Pocahontas, the chief's daughter?
Who was the leader of the Wampanoag that waged war against King Philip?
What is Metacomet?
Why is the New Amsterdam became a center of shipping to and from the Americas?
Why is this location combined with a good seaport with access to the Hudson River that served as a major transportation link to a rich land of farms, forests, and furs?
Why did Nathaniel Bacon oppose the colonial government?
What is It was dominated by easterners and blamed the government for not clearing the colony of Native Americans?
A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits.
What is a joint-stock company?
How did people in Virginia lured many settlers to Virginia and gave them a reason to work hard?
What is a headright?
What was the first written constitution in America?
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
What company controlled New Netherland?
What is the Dutch West India Company?
Who wrote a constitution that covered topics such as land divisions and social rank?
What is John Locke?
A landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled over large areas of land.
What are Patroons?