Roanoke
This was the nickname given to the lost Roanoke colony because settlers disappeared.
What is The Lost Colony
Jamestown was founded in this year.
What is 1607?
Name the ship that carried the Pilgrims to Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower?
Name one reason some English settlers left England to come to North America.
What is religious freedom or economic reasons?
Name one common struggle faced by early English settlers.
What is food shortages, disease, harsh weather, poor leadership, conflicts with Native Americans?
Roanoke Island is located in this modern U.S. state.
What is North Carolina?
This was the primary reason the Virginia Company founded Jamestown.
What is to make profit (search for gold, trade) and establish English presence?
This group of English settlers founded Plymouth in 1620.
"Religious freedom" meant WHAT in the context of early settlers?
What is to practice their faith without persecution and to form communities with shared beliefs?
Name a reason disease was a major problem for early settlements.
What is lack of immunity, poor sanitation, contaminated water, and close living quarters spread illness?
Name one possible explanation historians have for why the Roanoke colonists disappeared.
What is they moved inland, assimilated with local tribes, or were killed by disease/attack.
Name the Native American leader who initially helped Jamestown colonists
Who is Powhatan?
Name a Native American who helped the Pilgrims by teaching them to plant crops and make peace with nearby tribes.
Who is Squanto (Tisquantom)?
Besides religion, name another reason people left England to settle in the New World.
What is economic opportunity (land, trade), adventure, and escape from poverty or legal trouble?
Give an example of how Native Americans helped settlers survive, AND how they sometimes, hurt the survival of the settlers.
What is
helped survival: trade and teaching farming
hurt survival: fighting/war, broken agreements.
This famous English sea captain and explorer led the first English attempt to settle Roanoke in 1585.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
This crop became profitable for Jamestown and helped the colony survive economically.
What is tobacco?
The name of the agreement the Pilgrims created while still aboard their ship to set up self-government.
What is The Mayflower Compact?
Some settlers were motivated by economic opportunity — give a specific example.
What is investors and settlers hoped to grow tobacco or find valuable resources to sell in Europe?
Give a specific example of how location and environment made life hard for an early settlement.
What is
Jamestown’s swampy location led to mosquitoes and contaminated water
Plymouth’s harsh winter caused death from exposure and lack of food?
This word was carved into a post at Roanoke and is a key clue to the colony’s fate.
What is CROTOAN?
Name at least one cause (reason) and one effect for the "Starving Time" the Jamestown colonists faced during the winter of 1609-1610.
What is:
cause -- food shortages, siege, poor relations with Powhatan;
effect — many colonists died, only a few survived
Name a reason why the Pilgrims chose to stay and build a colony at Plymouth rather than return to England.
What is religious freedom, economic opportunity, or inability to return because of ship/conditions?
Name a leadership or social problem that could cause a colony to fail or nearly fail.
What is weak or selfish leadership (poor planning, no clear laws), lack of cooperation among settlers, or unequal distribution of supplies leading to starvation or collapse?