Vocab and Roanoke
These 3 Gs explain the reasons why England wanted to colonize the New World.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
This is the year that Jamestown was founded.
What is 1607?
These are the 4 New England Colonies.
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island?
This person wanted to establish a colony for Quakers, so he founded Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
These are the 5 Southern Colonies.
What are Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
This formal document outlines the rights, powers, and privileges granted to an entity, such as a colony.
What is a charter?
One of the early struggles of Jamestown was that settlers looked for this instead of working.
What is gold?
These two religious groups settled in the New England colonies.
This peace-loving group was very well-educated, becoming so popular that many people moved to their colony.
Who are the Quakers?
These were laborers whose journey to America was paid for in return for years of work.
Who are indentured servants?
This term describes an economic system in which a country controls the trade of the territory it owns.
What is mercantilism?
He was the man who arrived to the colony in 1608, brought strict rules, and established trade with Native Americans.
Who was John Smith?
This man was a great farmer and explorer who helped to set the rules for Plymouth Colony.
Who is William Bradford?
This colony was created when William Penn gave the three lower counties of Pennsylvania their own assembly.
What is Delaware?
Demand for Southern crops was high, leading to these workers being brought in to help work the plantations.
Who are African slaves?
This is the number of men that established the colony of Roanoke in April of 1585.
What is 108 men?
This man arrived in Jamestown in 1612 and used tobacco to help revitalize the economy. He also married Pocahontas in 1614.
Who is John Rolfe?
This document was written in 1620 and helped establish order based on self-government and majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The economy of the Middle Colonies was based on growing staple crops, earning them this nickname.
What are "The Breadbasket Colonies"?
In 1619, the Virginia Company of London created this, becoming the first representative government in the American Colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This is the year that John White returned to Roanoke only to find it empty.
When is 1590?
During one of the coldest winters in history, the population of Jamestown dropped from 800 to 60 due to cold and these other 2 things.
What are disease and starvation?
This phrase described a lifestyle committed to hard work and religion where communities were centered around the church. In fact, the law required church membership!
What is the "New England Way"?
This person founded both the New York and New Jersey colonies.
Who was the Duke of York?
During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, former indentured servants attacked the House of Burgesses and burned Jamestown because of these 2 reasons.
What are high taxes and lack of protection from Natives?