Vocab
A water route to Asia going through or around North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
He brought tobacco to Jamestown and married Pocahontas.
Who is John Rolfe?
Motivation/Reason(s) Settled: God, Gold, Glory
Environment: Warm
Religion: Catholic
Social: Forced Native Americans to convert to Catholicism
Industry: Ranching, farming, mining
Area: Present Day Mexico, Florida, and Southwest U.S.
What is New Spain?
Established by the Virginia Colony in 1607.
What is the Jamestown Colony?
Established by the Pilgrims in 1620.
What is the Plymouth Colony?
Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for a religious purpose.
He began the "no work, no eat" policy to save Jamestown from failing.
Who is John Smith?
Motivation/Reason(s) Settled: Northwest Passage & fur trade
Environment: Cold in the north, mild climate and fertile soil in the south
Social: learned fur trapping from Native American friends
Industry: fur trapping and trading
Area: Ohio and Mississippi River valley
What is New France?
The first representative assembly in the New World which first met in 1619 and made laws for the colony.
Established by the Puritans in 1630.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Plants, animals, diseases, ideas, religion, and people between the Eastern & Western hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Motivation/Reason(s) Settled: Searched for the Northwest Passage; set up Trade
Religion: Religious freedom for Pilgrims, Puritans
Area: Along the Atlantic coast
The reason Jamestown was established.
What is for profit/money?
The reason Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay were established?
What is for religious freedom/to escape religious persecution?
Dates and events listed in the order in which they occurred.
What is a chronology?
The purpose colonies had for existing in regards to mercantilism.
What is to benefit the mother country?
Relations with natives very tense, Unfamiliar climate & bad water, Lack of food due to drought, Diseases caused by swampy conditions, Lack of sufficient skilled laborers and skilled farmers, Searched for gold rather than keep up the colony
What are challenges Jamestown faced?
To keep law and order and for the general good of the Plymouth Colony.
What is the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?
A laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.
The environment you live in impacts how you live, what jobs you can have, how you can be successful, etc.
Indentured servants were a temporary source of labor and enslaved Africans were a permanent source.
What is the reason Jamestown switched from using indentured servants to enslaved Africans for tobacco production?
Written in 1620 to establish a self-government in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The theory that a nation's power depends on its wealth which is acquired through gold and trade.
What is mercantilism?
English colonies in the New World sent resources and raw materials to England.
What is English mercantilism in the New World?
John Smith had to create this order because men were looking for gold instead of working.
What is the "no work, no eat" policy?
To find new sea routes and metals/treasures, to gain new land, and to spread religion.
What are reasons for European exploration?
Warm climate and fertile soil.
What is the reason tobacco was successful?