What happened to the Roanoke Colony?
It disappeared
Where did the Virginia colonists come from?
England
What was the name of the city that the Pilgrims started?
Plymouth
What was Christopher Columbus trying to find?
shortcut to the Indies
What were the Mesopotamian temples called?
Ziggurats
What was England's first permanent settlement?
Jamestown
What ocean did the English have to cross to get to America?
Atlantic Ocean
Who did the Jamestown colonist want as their leader?
John Smith
Who wanted to find a shortcut to the Indies?
Christopher Columbus
What is the holy book of Islam called?
Koran or Quran
What plant did the Jamestown colonists grow that made the very rich?
Tobacco
Who was the man that organized the first colony for England?
Sir Walter Raleigh
What was the name of the first English child born in America
Virgina Dare
Who sailed to America on the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria?
Christopher Columbus
What is the holiday that the Jewish people celebrate thier escape from Egypt?
Passover
Who did the Jamestown colonists farmers use to help them on the plantations?
slaves
The English crossed what ocean to get to America?
Atlantic Ocean
What is the name of the city that the Puritans started?
Boston
Christopher Columbus sailed on what ships to get to America?
The Nina, The Pinta, and The Santa Maria
Who lived high in the Andes Mountains?
The Inca
What do we call a place ruled by people living in another part of the world?
Colony
Where did the Pilgrims and the Purtians come from to escape to have religish freedom?
England
Why do the Pilgrims and Puritans leave England and come to America ?
Freedom of religion
Did Christopher Columbus find a shortcut to the Indies?
No
Where did the Incas live?
Andes Mountains