Important Vocabulary Part #1
A document from the King or Queen giving a person or group permission to set up a colony.
What is a Royal Charter?
Important cash crop that the colonist of Jamestown exported back to England?
What is tobacco?
The Separatists/Pilgrims wanted to do what from the Church of England?
What is seperate?
The 3 G's
What are gold, glory and God?
A person who has agreed to work for someone else without pay in exchange for passage, food, clothes etc
What is an indentured servant?
John White was the captain of this ''Lost'' English Colony.
What is Roanoke?
A territory under the control of a distant nation.
What is a colony?
He enforced a rule for the colonists that if you don't work, you don't eat.
Who is Captain John Smith?
The pilgrims' environment in North America was different than Europe because it had ________________________.
What are longer and colder winters?
English settlers, like the Pilgrims, came to North America for this reason.
What is religious freedom?
Holding people against their will to work without pay.
What is slavery?
First successful English colony led by John Smith.
What is Jamestown?
Someone who is chosen by voters to speak for them.
What is a representative?
Only 60 of 500 colonists survived the first year at Jamestown. What is this time known as?
What is the Starving Time?
These people helped the Pilgrims learn how to hunt and fish.
Who were Native Americans like Squanto and Massasoit (Wampanoag)?
European countries wanting to find new sources of resources and new markets for their goods was an_______________ reason for colonization.
What is economic?
Early settlers of the Plymouth colony in what is now Massachusetts; long journey for religious reasons.
Who were the Pilgrims?
Colony founded by the Separatist/Pilgrims.
What is Plymouth?
First legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America; established in Virginia colony.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The relationship between the Powhatan and the colonists deteriorated because of different views on _______________________.
What is land ownership?
What was the main purpose of the Mayflower Compact?
To establish a form of self-government and rules to follow.
What did the Native Americans trade with the French?
What are beaver pelts?
A document or item that is original to an event or created by someone who was witness to the event.
What is a primary source?
Native Americans that worked with and against Jamestown, provided the colonists with corn and food before the Starving Time.
Who were the Powhatan?
Any crop grown for sale and profit.
What is a cash crop?
As the Jamestown colony grew, their need for more land to grow tobacco led to conflict with who _________________________________.
What is the Powhatan and their way of life?
Electing their own governors and creating their own laws is an example of __________________.
What is self-government?
The competition between European nations to claim new territory in North America was a ____________ reason for colonization.
What is political?
A source that is written or created by someone who did not witness an event.
What is a secondary source?
Native American tribe that helped the Pilgrims survive. Chief Massasoit was their leader.
Who were the Wampanoag?