Getting to Virginia
Jamestown and the James River were named for this English king, who also issued the colony’s charter.
Who is King James I?
Instead of planting crops, the Jamestown colonists spent their time searching for this.
What is gold?
Pocahontas was the daughter of this Algonquian chief.
Who is Powhatan?
This ship carried the Pilgrims to America, setting sail on September 16, 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
This Patuxet man taught the Pilgrims to plant corn, tap maple trees, fish, and trap beavers.
Who is Squanto?
This group believed the Church of England kept too many Catholic rituals and wanted them removed.
Who are the Puritans?
The Godspeed, the Discovery, and this ship carried the first Jamestown colonists.
What is the Susan Constant?
John Smith’s famous rule for Jamestown was “He that will not work shall not” do this.
What is eat?
He married Pocahontas and developed a way to grow tobacco that would sell in England.
Who is John Rolfe?
The Separatists and the Strangers worked together and became known as this group.
Who are the Pilgrims?
In 1621, about 50 Pilgrims and 90 Wampanoag shared this three-day feast.
What is the first Thanksgiving?
He was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is John Winthrop?
This formal legal document was basically a permission slip with rules for starting a new colony.
What is a charter?
Malaria and this disease killed many of the first Jamestown colonists.
What is dysentery?
When Pocahontas was baptized, she was given this English name.
What is Rebecca?
This smaller group of Puritans wanted to form a completely new church and called themselves Saints.
Who are the Separatists?
This Wampanoag chief signed a peace treaty with the Pilgrims that lasted 50 years.
Who is Massasoit?
The Puritans chose this harbor as the location of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What is Boston?
During the voyage to Virginia, John Smith was arrested after being accused of this crime.
What is mutiny?
The winter of 1609–1610, when only about 10% of Jamestown’s colonists survived, became known as this.
What is the Starving Time?
Set up in 1619, this was Virginia’s elected government, with two representatives from each district.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Navigational errors and a storm caused the Mayflower to land at the tip of this cape instead of near Jamestown.
What is Cape Cod?
Metacom, the son of Massasoit, was known to the colonists by this English name.
Who is King Philip?
John Winthrop used this Biblical phrase to describe the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What is a “city upon a hill”?
He captained the London Company’s voyage, which left England for Virginia in December 1606.
Who is Christopher Newport?
In April 1607, the colonists first landed at this site, named for King James I’s eldest son.
What is Cape Henry?
These people got free passage to America in exchange for seven years of unpaid labor.
Who are indentured immigrants (servants)?
Before sailing to America, the Separatists from Scrooby fled to this country and settled in Leiden.
What is Holland (the Netherlands)?
Fought in Connecticut in 1636–1637, this was the first of two major wars between New England colonists and Native Americans.
What is the Pequot War?
For over 50 years, only men in an accepted Puritan congregation could do this in Massachusetts.
What is vote?
He sponsored England’s earlier colony at Roanoke (1587–1590).
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
This 1604 peace treaty with Spain freed England to begin colonizing.
What is the Treaty of London?
In 1676, this man fought Native Americans without the governor’s permission and burned Jamestown to the ground.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
Signed by 41 men, this agreement became a cornerstone for the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
In 1686, James II joined New England, New York, and New Jersey into this unit, ruled by Sir Edmund Andros.
What is the Dominion of New England?
From 1630 to 1640, about 20,000 people left England for America in this movement.
What is the Great Migration?