Virginia
Colonies
English History
World History
Geography
100

This is the first, successful English colony founded in 1607. 

Jamestown

100

The Pilgrims and Strangers signed this document agreeing that everyone would have a say in laws of the new colony. 

Mayflower Compact

100

The James River and Jamestown are named after this English king. 

King James I

100

This war was between the Huron and Iroquois nations, deciding who would gain the most from selling beaver furs to Europeans. 

The Beaver Wars

100

This is one of the five regions in Virginia located between the fall line and the Chesapeake Bay.

Coastal Plains

200

This voyager helped establish the first Virginia colony, was captured by Opechancanough, and later was saved by Pocahontas. 

Captain John Smith

200

A strong wall made of upright tree trunks anchored into the ground as close as possible to keep enemies out.

Palisade Wall or Palisade Fort

200
This plan was organized by Guy Fawkes and other radical Catholics to attack the State Opening of Parliament and King James I on November 5, 1605.

The Gunpowder Plot

200

Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and  Tokugawa Ieyasu

The 3 Great Unifiers of Japan

200

Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario

The 5 Great Lakes

300

This Virginia colonist led a rebellion and set Jamestown on fire. 

Nathaniel Bacon

300

The country that the Pennsylvania Dutch came from. 

Germany

300

The English Monarchs that were crowned in 1689 during the Glorious Revolution.

King William III and Queen Mary II or William and Mary

300

The Defenestration of Prague (when Bohemian Protestants hurled a Catholic officials out of 3rd-floor window of a Prague) marked the beginning of this war.

The Thirty Years War.

300

The name given to this city after New Amsterdam surrenderd without a fight. 

New York City

400

This governor was a royalist, a friend of King Charles I and was reinstated after the Reformation of the Monarchy. He was Bacon's rival, only wanting Virginia colony elite planters to benefit. 

Governor William Berkeley

400

Peter Stuyvesant was the tough governor of this unruly colony. 

New Amsterdam

400

He lead the Roundheads to victory during the Third English Civil War, defeating the Cavaliers, becoming Lord Protector over the new government, Protectorate of England. 

Oliver Cromwell

400

He was the sea captain and explorer who trekked the Arctic Circle on his ship the Half Moon, looking for the Northeast Passage to Asia. A river, valley, strait, and bay bare his name.

Henry Hudson

400

This is peninsula in what is now Massachusetts, was named for the Atlantic fish that were so thick around Newfoundland. 

Cape Cod

500

A political alliance including over 30 Algonquian speaking tribes in the Tidewater region of Virginia, primarily centered around the Chesapeake Bay. The tribes included the Powhatan Indians, Pamunkey, Mattaponi, Appamattuck, Arrohateck, Chiskiack, Kecoughtan, Rappahannock, and more. 

The Powhatan Confederacy

500

This was the English name given to Metacomet. He would go on to start a war by this same English-given name.

King Phillip

500

The mass movement when puritans began to abandon England, moving to the Netherlands, West Indies, and they New England coast. 

Puritan Migration

500

This is the name of the French Protestants that sought refuge from their tyrannical Catholic country in the new world. They established Fort Caroline, located in modern day Jacksonville, FL, in 1564. However it was later sacked by the Spanish. 

The Huguenots
500

This is the oldest city in the United States. It was founded in 1565.

St. Augustine, Florida