Vocab 1
A disease caused by lack of vitamin C
What is Scurvy?
Having a high degree of resistance to a disease
What is immune?
The Europeans' main goal was to find new trade routes to __________.
What is Asia?
Soon after Columbus’ discovery, other countries in Europe started heading to the New World to claim land. They hoped to establish ___________ there.
What are colonies?
The first permanent English settlement in America was the colony of ________________.
What is Jamestown?
After the Europeans arrived in the New World, the Wabanaki began seeing homes built using wood. This was new for them because they built their wigwams out of _______________.
What is birch bark?
To take something out
What is extract?
Shares of a company
What is a stock?
The Italian sailor that tried to convince many kings in Europe to give him ships and money to sail west by promising to bring back riches for them and their countries.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The 3 European countries that tried to claim most of North America.
What are France, England, and Spain?
The colony started by the Plymouth Company in Maine that did not last and was eventually abandoned.
What is Popham?
When the Europeans first started trying to settle in the New World, they brought diseases that the Wabanaki hadn't been exposed to before. To this day, the Wabanaki call this period of time the "__________________."
What is the "Dying Time"?
A mapmaker
What is a cartographer?
An agreement in which one person or group grants rights and responsibilities to another person or group
What is a charter?
The Queen who was married to King Ferdinand and paid for Columbus' trip.
Who is Queen Isabella?
Samuel de Champlain was a cartographer that explored the New World and made ________ of it as he explored.
What are maps?
The English colonists' main goal was to find _________ in the New World.
What is wealth?
Maine was originally part of ________________ for about 150 years.
What is Massachusetts?
A raised roadway across a body of water
What is a causeway?
To go around
What is circumnavigate?
The 3 Asian countries Europe was trading for silk, jewels, and spices.
What are India, China, and Japan?
Colonists were expected to produce raw materials for the country they were originally from, which was called the "______________________."
What is the "mother country"?
The name of the first ship built by the English in North America.
What is the "Virginia"?
Who the Wabanaki decided to ally with.
Who are the French?
A person who owns stock in a company
What is a stockholder?
In a ___________________________, people gave money to investors in exchange for stock or shares in the company.
What is a joint stock company?
The name of the 3 ships Christopher Columbus sailed west in.
What are The Nina, The Pinta, and The Santa Maria?
A rich man from England who grew up hearing about adventures to the New World and wanted to be the first person to start an English colony in America.
Who is Sir Humphrey Gilbert?
The man known as the “Father of New England” because he helped create many settlements in Maine.
Who is Sir Fernando Gorges?
Why the Wabanaki did not want to ally with the English.
What is they did not trust them?
**Bonus points if you can explain why they didn't trust them, and can name the person responsible**