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Leader of the Jamestown colony

John Smith

100

Married John Rolfe

Pocahontas

100

The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation influenced European Protestants and Catholic missionaries to do what in North America?

Explore and colonize North America

100

People who wanted to Separate from the Church of England

Separatists

100

What college did the Puritans found?

Harvard

200

First English child born in North America

Virginia Dare

200

Leader of the tribe that helped the Indians

Massasoit

200

How would the Virginia Company make money for England in North America?

By exporting and selling natural resources in Europe

200

This is a person who is sent to another country to convince others to believe in a particular religion

missionary

200

What was the document that explained how the Pilgrims would govern themselves?

Mayflower Compact

300

First to Navigate the St. Lawrence River

Jacques Cartier

300

Claimed a river and its valley for the Netherlands

Henry Hudson

300

How did the Spanish treat the Native Americans in the Spanish colonies in the New World?

Forced them into missions, expected them to convert to Christianity, Adopt the Spanish way of life, suffered from harsh treatment, died from overwork and illness

300

A person who rules a country or territory as a representative of the king or queen

viceroy

300
Queen Elizabeth I gave this person a royal charter to go exploring in North America for colonization for England

Sir Walter Raleigh

400

Claimed the Mississippi River for France

Robert de la Salle

400

Established a fort and named it Quebec

Samuel de Champlain

400

What did Sir Walter Raleigh find when he returned tot eh Roanoke colony two years later?

The word Croatoan on a wooden post and the colony was missing

400

Someone who agrees to work without pay for someone else for a set time

indentured servant

400

This is the first permanent European settlement in the United States

St. Augustine

500

Governor of New Netherlands

Peter Stuyvesant

500

Started a movement called the Protestant Reformation in 1517

Martin Luther

500

The first representative government at assembled in English North America

The House of Burgesses

500

King Charles V set up this system where the Indians were supposed to be treated better

encomienda

500

Divided North and South America between Spain and Portugal

Treaty of Tordesillas