This explorer was looking for a Northwest Passage and discovered a rich fishing area off of the coast of present-day Canada instead.
Who is John Cabot?
100
Where John White thought the Roanoke settlers had gone.
What is to live with nearby American Indians?
100
The ship the Pilgrims sailed to Plymouth in.
What is the Mayflower?
100
Few people from the Netherlands wanted to move across the Atlantic Ocean, therefore, the Dutch West India Company did this.
What is welcomed all people, no matter what country they came from or what religion they practiced?
200
A strip of land that stretches into a body of water.
What is a cape?
200
This explorer explored for both the Dutch and England in two separate expeditions where he found a river and a bay that are now named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
200
The Virginia Company sold these to their investors.
What are stocks?
200
The document where the Pilgrims agreed to make laws for the good of the colony and to obey them.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
In 1664, English ships sailed into the harbor at New Amsterdam to attack. Settlers were so unhappy with their governor, they refused to fight the English, so this happened.
What is New Amsterdam became an English colony?
300
A document giving permission to a person or group to do something.
What is a charter?
300
The first permanent French settlement in North America.
What is Quebec?
300
The first Africans in Jamestown were probably this.
What are indentured servants?
300
The way Squanto helped the Pilgrims after their first winter.
What is he taught them how to plant crops such as maize, pumpkin, and beans?
300
Missionaries did this throughout New France.
What is taught people about Catholicism and built missions throughout New France?
400
To put money into something to try to earn more money.
What is invest?
400
The explorer who founded a fur-trading post on the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
400
How Jamestown and Roanoke are different.
What is Roanoke was started by the King of England and failed, while Jamestown was started by the Virginia company and succeeded?
400
The reason the Puritans were more successful than the Pilgrims.
What is the Puritans came better prepared and arrived in time to plant crops?
400
Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet traveled down this river where Marquette wanted to set up missions and Jolliet thought it may lead to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
The respect for beliefs that are different from one's own.
What is tolerance?
500
These were the two leaders involved in the conflict between Spain and England.
Who are King Philip and Queen Elizabeth?
500
The reason the Powhatans and the Jamestown settlers briefly made peace.
What is John Rolfe married Pocahontas?
500
The reason the Massachusetts Bay Colony matters.
What is it brought large numbers of English people to what would become the United States?
500
This is how the fur traders and American Indians got along.
What is fur traders traveled throughout New France trading with people of Indian nations. The French formed a partnership with the Huron and Algonquin Indians where they helped them fight against their enemies?