Vocab
Northwest Passage
Roanoke and Jamestown
New England Settlements
Dutch and French Colonies
100
Someone who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for the cost of a voyage to North America.
Who is an indentured servant?
100
A water route through North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
100
All of the settlers in this colony mysteriously disappeared.
What is Roanoke Island?
100
The Pilgrims came to America for this.
What is religious freedom?
100
Very few settlers lived in New France.
What is New France's cold climate made farming difficult?
200
A person who teaches his or her religion to others who have different beliefs.
Who is a missionary?
200
The reason why explorers looked for a Northwest Passage through North America to Asia.
What is they wanted to find a faster sea route?
200
After some struggles, this was the first successful English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown Colony?
200
This was the name of the colony the Pilgrims settled.
What is Plymouth?
200
The Dutch West India Company welcomed settlers from all countries and religions.
What is it made the population of New Netherland diverse?
300
A crop that people grown and sell to earn money.
What is a cash crop?
300
Europeans wanted to bring back these from Asia, therefore, wanted to find a Northwest Passage.
What are silk and spices?
300
The first settlers to Jamestown did this instead of farm.
What is search for gold?
300
This group of people settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who are the English Puritans?
300
The Manhates Indians were the original inhabitants of this place.
What is Manhattan Island?
400
An attack by an armed force to conquer another country.
What is an invasion?
400
This happened as a result of the Spanish Armada's defeat.
What is England used its new power to claim more land in the America?
400
The cash crop that made the Jamestown colony successful.
What is tobacco.
400
This was the primary difference between the Plymouth colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony was successful and the Plymouth colony failed?
400
Fur traders of New France get fur to sell to Europeans by doing this.
What is they traded for fur with Indian nations in present-day Canada?
500
The variety of people in a group.
What is diversity?
500
These were the two reasons England and Spain went to war.
What are religion and English attacks on Spanish ships?
500
The Powhatans and the Jamestown settlers fought over this for years.
What is land?
500
This was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact.
What is to create a plan so that the Pilgrims could govern themselves?
500
Peter Stuyvesant was the governor of New Netherland and did not practice this.
What is tolerance?
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