Jamestown
The true motive for coming to the New World
The other term for Separatists who settled in the New England area.
What is Pilgrims?
The governor received his post from this person.
Who is the King?
This group of people wanted to 'separate' from the Church of England
What is Separatists?
This individual is granted the label of peace keeper during a few early years of Jamestown.
Who is Pocahontas?
The name of the Native American tribe in the Jamestown area.
What is the Powhatan?
The Native American Tribe of the Eastern New England area.
What is the Wampanoag?
The number of districts who voted in the first meeting.
11 districts with 2 representatives each
This group of people sought to clean up the Church of England.
What is Puritans
The English Separatists left Holland. Provide one reason why.
Answers may include: children were forgetting language, roots, and cultural ties
The time period and name which many English settlers died.
What is the Starving Time, Winter 1610.
These were the names of the ships that were take Englishmen and women to the New World.
What are the Speedwell and the Mayflower?
The first governor of the House of Burgesses.
George Yeardly.
The monarch responsible for outlawing Separatist and Puritan sects of religion.
Who is King James I?
The first Native American that the Pilgrims encountered who also spoke English.
Who is Samoset.
Thanks to John Rolfe, this crop saved the future of Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
Who signed the Mayflower Compact?
ONLY men, land-owners
women, enslaved people, poor non-landowning men, and indentured servants
This group separated from the Catholic church.
What is the Church of England?
What is idleness?
This kind of company, the Virginia Company, granted a charter to settle the Jamestown area.
What is a joint-stock company?
A woman's role in Plymouth could change after her husband died. Explain how.
A widow could own land, execute the will of her husband, make her own will to provide for her children, especially daughters
Describe the 3 criteria to be a House of Burgess representative.
What is: white male, land-owning, and of gentry class.
According to the Church of England, who is the head of the church?
The King
The first democratic document of the New World
What is the Mayflower Compact?