Jamestown Beginnings
King James I believed the best way to establish dominance in America was for _______________ to invest money.
Who are wealthy people and merchants?
Name one way John Smith improved life in Jamestown.
What is digging the first well/repairing buildings/strengthening defenses?
Name the first representative government in English colonies
What is the House of Burgesses?
What did Pilgrims hope to find in America?
What is religious freedom?
Why did French-Native relations decline when animals near trading posts were overhunted?
What is increased competition for furs with the English?
One challenge settlers faced when they arrived in Jamestown. (there are 3)
What is a drought/no farming skills/sickness?
How did private land ownership make Jamestown successful?
What is motivating settlers to work hard and profit for themselves?
Which government was the first to practice representative democracy?
What is the Roman Republic?
What two groups were aboard the Mayflower?
Who are Pilgrims and Strangers?
What action did Sir William Berkeley refuse that led to Bacon's Rebellion?
What is sending a militia to protect the border from Native Americans?
Which Native American group helped English colonists by trading and teaching survival skills?
Who are the Powhatan Confederacy?
How was Pocahontas viewed by the colonists?
What is a peacemaker?
Name two principles of Athenian democracy that influenced Plymouth. (3 things)
What are citizenship, civic participation, and rule of law?
One way Squanto helped Plymouth settlers.
What is teaching them to farm, hunt, fish, and trade?
Difference between enslaved people and indentured servants.
What is enslaved people were denied freedom; indentured servants could earn freedom?
What event led to "the starving time"?
What is settlers taking land and corn from the Powhatan Confederacy during drought?
Name two incentives offered to women to move to Jamestown.
What are free transportation/plots of land/dowry of clothing/choice of husband?
The Mayflower Compact called for meetings to do what? (3 things)
What is elect leaders, vote on rights and discuss issues?
What two promises were in the treaty between Carver & Massasoit?
What is mutual defense and peaceful relations?
What false reasoning did Europeans use to justify enslaving Africans?
What is considering them uncivilized and inferior?
What crop brought by John Rolf became the first American cash crop?
What is tobacco?
What were women in Jamestown expected to do?
What is marry and bear children quickly?
Which Plymouth leader wrote the only first-hand account of a Mayflower passenger?
Who is William Bradford?
What harvest celebration with the Wampanoag became the origin of Thanksgiving?
What is the 1621 Harvest Festival?
Which Native tribe allied with Plymouth through Massasoit?
What are the Wampanoag?