Captain John Smith
John Smith is famously associated with this Powhatan woman, who allegedly saved his life (though Disney exaggerated the romance).
Who is Pocahontas?
The Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic in 1620 on this famous ship.
What is the Mayflower?
The Puritans founded this colony in 1630, centered around the city of Boston.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
The Mayflower Compact was the first attempt at this type of government in the American colonies, where people create their own laws.
What is Self-Government?
This crop, introduced by John Rolfe, was known as "brown gold" and saved Jamestown from economic ruin.
What is Tobacco?
Smith took charge of this colony in 1608, which was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Legend says the Pilgrims first stepped onto land at this specific rock in Massachusetts.
What is Plymouth Rock?
The Puritans got their name because they wanted to "purify" the Church of England of all traces of this religion.
What is Catholicism?
Because they didn't have a king present, the settlers agreed to follow the rules decided by this—meaning more than half the people.
What is Majority Rule?
The Pilgrims and Puritans crossed this specific ocean to get to America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
To stop the men from just digging for gold, Smith implemented this strict rule: "He that will not work shall not _______."
What is eat?
The Pilgrims celebrated a successful harvest in 1621 with the Wampanoag, an event we now celebrate as this national holiday.
What is Thanksgiving?
This Puritan Governor gave a famous sermon stating their community should be like a "City upon a Hill" for the world to watch.
Who is John Winthrop?
The Compact was signed by 41 passengers, all of whom belonged to this gender.
What is Male (or Men)?
Squanto taught the Pilgrims to put this dead animal in the ground to help their corn grow.
What is a fish?
Smith didn't stay in America long; he had to return to England in 1609 after a bag of this exploded on his lap.
What is Gunpowder?
Before coming to America, the Pilgrims spent over 10 years living in this country to escape persecution in England.
What is the Netherlands (or Holland)?
In 1692, the Puritan strictness and fear of the devil resulted in these infamous trials where 19 people were executed.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
Even though they were making their own laws, the first sentence of the Compact states they were still loyal subjects of this British King.
Who is King James?
At the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims didn't have pumpkin pie because they had run out of this ingredient.
What is Sugar?
Long after Jamestown, Smith mapped the northern coast of America and gave it this name, which is still used for the region containing Massachusetts and Connecticut.
What is New England?
Unlike the Puritans, the Pilgrims were known as "Separatists" because they wanted to completely separate from this institution.
What is the Church of England?
If you disagreed with the Puritan leaders, like Anne Hutchinson or Roger Williams did, this punishment (being kicked out) was often the result.
What is Banishment (or Exile)?
The signers agreed to combine themselves into a "Civil Body _______" to enact just laws for the good of the colony.
P _ L _ T _ C
What is Politic?
Food was so scarce during the early years that settlers in Plymouth and Jamestown often had to make their daily bread not from wheat, but from this native crop, which they sometimes complained tasted like "animal fodder."
What is Corn (or Maize)?