The First Steps
A legal document granted by the crown and often funded by investors that allowed ambitious colonists to sail to the New World and create new colonies
Charter
This settlement was the first attempt at colonization in the New World
Roanoke
Jamestown was named after this monarch
King James I
Left Europe do to constant persecution to seek religious freedom in the New World
Puritans/Pilgrims
This person was the leader of the Quakers
George Fox
Name of the ship used by the Pilgrims to sail to the New World
The Mayflower
Virginia's first cash crop, grown for profit and was wildly grown
Tobacco
He was the leader and protector of the colonists at Jamestown
John Smith
Landing site of the Mayflower and the Pilgrims aboard
Plymouth Colony
Friend and great advocate for the Quakers, he founded the colony of Pennsylvania
William Penn
The Mayflower was originally intended to land on the Hudson River but instead landed...
Not looking for the colony name...
In Cape Cod, Massachusetts
It was due to this that the colonists of Roanoke could not grow successful crops
Infertile/Bad soil
Leader of the local native tribes and father of Pocahontas
Chief Powhatan
Traveled with the Pilgrims for other opportunistic goals, but were not in search of religious freedom
The Strangers
It was for this reason that William Penn suggested that the Quakers leave England and seek refuge in the new world
Fierce litigations/persecutions
People who could not afford passage to the colonies could become this. Another person would pay their passage, and in exchange, they would serve that person for a set length of time and then would be free.
Indentured Servant
What happened to the colonists left behind at Roanoke Island?
Mysteriously Disappeared/No one knows
Armed uprising in Virginia's Colony from 1676–1677 against the Governor William Berkeley. Due to discontent from the lower farming class against the more wealthy land owners and investors over issues with nearby natives
Bacon's Rebellion
Name of the document drafted to create necessary laws and cooperation among the new colonists
The Mayflower Compact
The King of England owed his father a dabt
In 1614, this event helped maintain peace between the English and the Powhaton people
The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas
The first elected legislative assembly in the New World that was established to give colonists a voice in electing their representatives in Government
House of Burgesses
This event marked by the starvation and death of almost 90% of the original Jamestown Colonists during the first winter (1609-1610) was called
"The Starving Time"
A group of people who wanted to "'separate' themselves from the Church of England
Separatists
William Penn founded Philadelphia (Brotherly Love) as a welcome place for people of all different
Religions