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Mystery
100
She helped establish a time of peace between Powhatan and the English colonists in Jamestown.
Who is Pocahontas?
100
Leader of the Powhatan people and father of Pochantas.
Who is Powhatan?
100
Crop grown for profit
What is a cash crop?
100
Why did Queen Elizabeth (England) want colonies in the New World?
They wanted to find gold and other resources.
100
A person who agrees to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the ocean voyage to North America.
What is an indentured servant?
200
French explorer who founded Quebec; the first permanent French settlement in North America.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
200
English sea captain who explored North America in search of the Northwest Passage in the early 1600's.
Who is Henry Hudson?
200
Waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is the Northwest Passage?
200
England' s first attempt at a colony.
What is Roanoke Island?
200
The type of government established in the colonies.
What is self-government?
300
Jamestown colony leader who showed that tobacco could be grown successfully in Virginia.
Who is John Rolfe?
300
Leader of the Jamestown colony.
Who is John Smith?
300
Share in a company often sold to raise money for the company.
What is a stock?
300
What did the colony of Roanoke become known as?
What is the Lost Colony?
300
Name things John Smith did to save the colonists of Jamestown?
What is made them work, plant crops, build houses, dig wells and trade with the Native Americans?
400
Leader of the English colony of Roanoke.
Who is John White?
400
English explorer and soldier who explored North America in the 1580's and founded the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.
Who is Walter Raleigh?
400
Document that permitted colonists to settle on land claimed by their ruler.
What is a charter?
400
Why was Spain angry at the English?
What is they were starting colonies and raiding their ships?
400
Why were the Jamestown settlers dying?
What is because of starvation and disease?
500
First English sea captain to sail around in 1577.
Who is Francis Drake?
500
The ruler of England who first wanted to start colonies in the New World.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
500
The first law-making assembly in an English colony.
What is the House of Burgesses?
500
What was the name of the Spanish fleet sent to defeat the English?
What is the Armada?
500
What river allowed the Dutch to control trade?
What is the Hudson River?
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