Vocab
What word means something declared as one's own, especially a piece of land?
What is a claim?
What is the word that means a crop that people grow and sell to earn money? For example, tobacco.
What is a cash crop?
What was the first permanent French Settlement in North America?
What is a fur-trading post called Quebec?
Who first arrived in Jamestown in 1619?
Who were the women and Africans?
After the defeat of the Spanish Armada, who claimed more land in the Americas?
Who were the English?
What is the Spanish word for a large fleet of ships?
What is an armada?
What is the word that means someone who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for the cost of a voyage to North America?
What is an indentured servant?
When the settlers arrived in Jamestown, what was the first thing they did?
What is looked for gold?
How many settlers were in Virginia in 1610?
What is fewer than 500?
How did the Separatists get their name?
What is they wanted to separate from the Church of England?
What is the word that means a document giving permission to a person or group to do something?
What is a charter?
What is the word for a person who makes a long journey for religious reasons?
What is a Pilgrim?
Why did the Pilgrims and Puritans settle in New England?
What is they wanted to build communities based on their own religions?
From 1617 to 1620, what happened to the number of European settlers in Virginia?
What is grew rapidly?
Governor Minuit bought Manhattan Island from the Manhates natives. What did he name the settlement?
What is New Amsterdam?
What is the word that means to put money into something to try and earn more money?
What is invest?
What is the word that means the Pilgrims' written agreement of the colony's laws and agreement to obey them?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Who were the settlers of New Netherland?
Who were people of different nationalities and religions?
In what year did the Pilgrims sign the Mayflower Compact?
When was 1620?
Why is the explorer Henry Hudson important in the history of New Netherland?
What is he claimed land for the Dutch?
What is the word that means respecting beliefs that are different from one's own?
What is tolerance?
What is the word that means the variety of people in a group?
What is diversity?
If you were in New Netherland, which direction would you travel to reach the fur-trading post in Quebec?
Where is North?
How many years passed from the first year at Plymouth to the start of a period when over 16,000 Puritans moved to New England?
How many is 10 years?
Who was Francis Drake?
Who is an English sea captain?