Vocabulary
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
The Jamestown Colony
The Plymouth Colony
Wild Card Questions
100

A form of government is led by a king or queen.

What is a monarchy?

100

The present day area of the Roanoke.

What is North Carolina?

100

The present day area of Jamestown Colony.

What is Virginia?

100

What the Plymouth settlers were seeking when they left England.

What is religious freedom?

100

The number of original colonies in this lesson.

What is three?

200

A small community created by settlers.

What is a colony?

200

The man who first landed in Roanoke Colony with 150 settlers?

Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?

200

The disease that mosquitoes carry and killed many of the settlers.

What is malaria?

200

The first harvest feast.

What is Thanksgiving?

200

The word carved into a tree at the Lost Colony of Roanoke.

What is Croatoan?

300

A person who settles in a new territory.

What is a colonist?

300

The explorer who returned three years later with more supplies and found that the original settlers had vanished.

Who was Captain John White?

300

The young Algonquian who became an friend, translator and guide to the Jamestown leaders.

Who is Pocahontas?

300

The ship that carried the Plymouth Pilgrims.

What is the Mayflower?

300

A set of rules written by Pilgrims to help them live together peacefully.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

400

A form of government that give the people the power to rule themselves through representatives.  

What is a representative government?

400

The occupations of the original 150 settlers of Roanoke.

What were farmers and skilled workers?

400

The kind of government formed in Jamestown.

What is a representative governement?

400

The amount of surviving colonists after the first winter.

What is half of the original 102?

400

The number of settlers who survived the first winter of Jamestown.

What is 60?

500

The visual tool we used to tell what we thought life in Colonial America was like.

What are paintings?

500

The main food sources of the Roanoke settlers.

What are fish, fruits and vegetables?

500

The kind of landscape Jamestown settlers found that was not good for farming.

What is a marsh?

500

The buildings the settlers built.

What were homes and Meeting Houses (places of worship)?

500

What settlers ate during the Starving Time to survive.

What are dogs and horses?

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