Vocabulary
A person who goes on a long journey, usually for a religious purpose
What is a pilgrim?
The people who worked at the Plymouth colony.
Who was everyone?
A Native American that helped better the relationship between the Native Americans and the colonists in Jamestown.
Who is Pocahontas?
The American Indians providing food and labor for the Spanish colonists.
What was an example of cooperation between the Spanish colonists and the American Indians?
The country that started the tradition of putting up a Christmas tree.
What is Germany?
Tobacco that was grown in Jamestown to be sold.
What is a cash crop?
People who left England to find freedom to practice their own religion.
Who were the Separatists and the Puritans?
The practice of other religions in England in the early 1600s.
What was not legal to do in England in the early 1600s?
Part of the class system in New Spain that included someone born in New Spain who's parents were born in Spain.
Who were the criollo/criolla?
The country where children hang their Christmas stockings at the end of their beds on Christmas Eve.
What is England?
Someone who is sent to another country to convince others to believe in a particular religion.
Who is a missionary?
John Smith returned to England in this year.
What is 1609.
Part of the class system in New Spain made up of persons of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry.
What is mestizos?
A group of people in the lowest class of the New Spain class system.
Who were the Indians and African people?
The shortest day of the year, which occurs around December 21.
What is the Winter Solstice?
A document that is signed by the king or queen of a country, and that gives an organization particular rights.
What is a Royal Charter?
Person who claimed the Mississippi river and its basin for France, naming the territory "Louisiana" after King Louis XIV.
Who was de La Salle?
Established in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh, this was the first attempt at a permanent English settlement in North America.
What was Roanoke colony?
A land ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
Kris Kringle, Old Saint Nick, Saint Nicholas
What are other names for Santa Claus?
An agreement between the Pilgrims and other passengers on The Mayflower who formed their own government in the new colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Gold, spices, and the Northwest Passage.
What are things Cartier was sent to look for?
The first successful English colony.
What was Jamestown?
A person who agrees to work for a set period of time without pay in exchange for benefits like food, shelter, and travel expenses.
What is an indentured servant?
A popular red-and-white striped candy we eat around Christmas time.
What are candy canes?