Vocabulary
A small newly built community
What is a settlement?
Colony known as the lost colony
What is Roanoke?
The first PERMANENT English colony in America.
What is Jamestown?
What is The Mayflower?
People who settled in Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth.
What are colonists?
A form of government where the ruler is a king or queen
What is a monarchy?
The reason why the original settlers in Roanoke returned to England.
What is running out of food/supplies?
Reason why King James sent settlers to Jamestown.
What is looking for gold/money?
Name of the group of people traveling to Plymouth.
What are pilgrims?
Name of the first leader of Jamestown.
Who is John Smith?
What is a democracy?
The word carved on a gatepost when Captain John Smith returned.
What is CROATOAN?
The name of the winter between 1609-1610
What is The Starving Time?
Reason why surviving was difficult in Plymouth at the time they arrived
What is bad weather for crops?
The reasons how Roanoke compares to Jamestown and Plymouth
What is earlier, what is not lasting.
A type of government that gives people the power to rule themselves, often through elected representatives.
What is a democratic?
The reason why Captain John White's return to Roanoke was delayed three years
What is the war between England and Spain?
The name of the group of representatives that were men who owned land that were elected to vote on laws.
What is The House of Burgesses?
Modern day locations of each colony.
A form of government where citizens elect the leaders to make decisions on their behalf
What is a representative government?
Reason why Roanoke is called the Lost Colony
What is all the settlers disappearing?
A problem with the LOCATION of Jamestown.
What are wetlands with bad water?
A plan of government created by the Pilgrims.
Compared to England, the government of Virginia was more...
What is democratic?