Roanoke
Jamestown
Plymouth
Vocabulary
Pot Luck
100
Was Roanoke colony siccessful or unsuccessful?
unsuccessful
100
Was Jamestown Colony successful or unsuccessful?
successful - in fact, it is the first successful permanent English colony
100
Was Plymouth Colony successful or unsuccessful?
successful
100
This is a crop grown in large quantities for selling.
What is cash crop?
100
This was the only unsuccessful colony of the three.
What is Roanoke?
200
Why did the Roanoke people want to establish their colony?
They wanted a better life.
200
Why did the colony of Jamestown want to settle?
They were looking for riches and gold.
200
Why did the people of Plymouth want to settle?
religious freedom
200
This plant produced a blue dye.
What is indigo?
200
John Smith, John Rolfe, and Pocahontas are all associated with this colony.
What is Jamestown?
300
When and where was Roanoke settled?
1587; present day North Carolina
300
When and where was Jamestown settled?
1607; present day Virginia
300
When and where was Plymouth settled?
1620; present day Massachusetts
300
This plant could be sniffed, smoked, or chewed.
What is tobacco?
300
Which colony is the first successful, permanent settlement in America by England?
What is Jamestown?
400
What was written on the gateposts?
CROATOAN
400
Name 2 of the 3 ships that the English sailed over on
Godspeed, Susan Constant, Doscovery
400
What's the name of the famous ship that brought the Plymouth colonies to America?
The Mayflower
400
Different from each other.
What is diverse?
400
Describe Squanto's role with the Plymouth Colony
He taught them how to farm, was a translator between the English and the Native Americans.
500
Describe 2 theories of what might have happened to the Roanoke Colony.
Starvation, storm wiped them out, another tribe attacked them, they tried to sail home and crashed, they moved to another island and joined a Native American tribe.
500
List 3 hardships of the Jamestown colony's first year.
Starvation (famine), drought, war
500
List three hardships of the Plymouth Colony.
Starvation, not knowing how to grow crops, enemy tribal attacks, weather/timing of arrival
500
A group of government officials that make laws.
What is an assembly?
500
Describe King Philip's War.
It was the first big war between the Indians and colonists in MA (1675). It lasted a year and destroyed many people, and much land for both Indians and colonists.
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