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a waterway through or around North America
What is the Northwest Passage?
What was the only church in Western Europe until the 1500s?
The Catholic Church
Servants who signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America.
What is Indentured Servants
a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
What is a charter?
In 1517, he publicly challenged many of the practices of the Catholic Church; he believed the Church had become too worldly, opposed the power of popes, and believed people could be saved by faith in God alone.
Who is Martin Luther?
an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another
What is an alliance?
Powhantan daughter
Who is Pocahontas?
This bill made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
movement to reform the Roman Catholic Church in the 1500's; led to the creation of many different Christian churches
What is the Protestant Reformation?
In 1626, this man led a group of Dutch settlers to the mouth of the Hudson River; they bought Manhattan Island from the Indians and called his settlement New Amsterdam.
Who is Peter Minuit?
What problems did Jamestown colonists face in the New World?
The colonist did not prepare themselves for daily life in the Americas. Something along this line, diseases, lack of food, lack of shelter, clashes with the Native Americans.
A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.
What is a charter?
New York's previous name.
What is New Amsterdam?
known as the "Lost Colony"
What is Roanoke?
What was the main cash crop of Virginia?
Tobacco
an ambitious young farmer, organized angry men and women on the frontier to raid Native American villages and burn Jamestown
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The first permanent French settlement in North America
Who is Port Royal?
What divided Europe?
The Protestant Reformation divided Europe.
first permanent English settlement
What is Jamestown?
a French fort located near the mouth of the Mississippi River; became a busy trading center
What is New Orleans?
German Monk who challenged the Catholic Church and is credited with starting the Reformation?
Who is Martin Luther?
Laws to control slaves.
What are slave codes?
An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.
What is an alliance?
the economy in Jamestown improved after colonists began growing this cash crop
What is tobacco?
Signed a contract to work for 4-7 years for those who paid for their journey to America
What is Indentured Servants?