Vocabulary
Exploration
Colonial Settlements
100

A settlement chartered by the monarchy. 

What is a colony

100

Country sailed and explored before the Spanish

Who is Portugal

100

What was the name of the Spanish colonies in N. America?

What is New Spain

200

A document that granted permission to start a settlement/colony.

What is a Charter

200

The primary motive of Portuguese and Spanish Explorers 

What is Wealth

200

What is the name of the French colonies in N. America

What is New France

300

Male representatives from  a colony,  later had to be males who owned land

What is Burgesses

300

To move completely around a land of mass usually by water. 

Circumnavigate

300

The first successful English settlement

What is Jamestown

400

A company with multiple investors seeking a return on wealth that is shared. 

What is Joint Stock Company

400

Three main causes of exploration and colonization failure. 

What is illness, starvation, and conflict.

400

A key step in building a representative democratic government. Signed on a ship. 

What is the Mayflower Compact

500

Religious group of individuals from England who sought freedom of religion in North America.

Who are the Puritans

500

The ship the Puritans sailed to Plymouth on.

What is The Mayflower.

500

What did the Separatists and Puritans seek on their pilgrimage to the Americas?

What is Religious Freedom