Famous Navigators
This famous navigator was the first to come to America, and has a famous holiday named after him that is also known as Indigenous People's Day.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The Plymouth colony famously celebrated their 1621 Harvest, with many claiming they invited the Wampanoag tribe. This celebration would later become this November holiday.
What is Thanksgiving?
**To travel all the way around the Earth.
What is Circumnavigate?
This 13 year old girl saved the colonists, serving as a peacemaker between colonists and the Powhatan tribe.
Who is Pocahontas?
This group arrived to Jamestown in 1619, making the colony profitable and changing the course of American history.
Who are ensalved Africans?
This man sailed with Columbus, and his name is remembered today for the name "America"
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
**This Native American man is responsible for saving the Pilgrims, for he knew English and could translate and taught farming techniques to survive.
Who is Squanto?
**This vocabulary term means to force somebody to work without pay.
What is enslave?
This crop, introduced by John Rolfe, made the Jamestown colony financially successful, leading the way to the creation of cigarettes.
What is tobacco?
Colonists would regularly fight with these groups, for they were often fighting over land and supplies.
Who are Native Americans?
**This nation held less land in North America than the Other three
*Great Britain/England
*France
*Portugal
*The Netherlands
What is Portugal?
The first governor of Plymouth, who helped the colonists survive its early years.
Who is William Bradford?
A common disease among sailors that is caused by a lack of vitamin C (from fruit).
What is scurvy?
Although the movie portrays him as the husband of Pocahontas, the two never married. He is actually well known for introducing a force work program to stop settlers from starving.
Who is John Smith?
Francis Bacon was the most famous of these, a group who joined up with enslaved Africans in his rebellion.
Who are Indentured Servants?
**This British sailor sailed for both England and the Netherlands (Dutch), founding New York and getting his own Great Lake.
Who is Henry Hudson?
**This was the governing style of the Mayflower Colony, relying on people making their own decisions.
What is self government?
**an economic policy in which the goal is to gain wealth by exporting more goods than are imported
What is mercantilism?
**This group established permanent homes and families in Jamestown.
Who are women?
**This colony is important to America due to having established private ownership, slavery, and the House of Burgesses.
What is Jamestown?
Although Ferdinand Magellan is credited with circumnavigating the world first, it is likely that this enslaved man did so over a year before any of Magellan's crew.
Who is Enrique of Malacca?
**Self-government and the Mayflower Compact were modeled after this ancient society.
What is Ancient Greece?
**a government in which the people have the power, but elect officials to represent them.
What is representative democracy?
**This rebellion occurred in Jamestown, and led to fighting between Jamestown colonists and Native Americans
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Europeans, especially the Spanish, established these to help spread Catholicism to the Native Americans.
What are missions?