Vocabulary
Faster route from Europe to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Unlike Puritans who wanted to reform the Church of England, this group wanted to separate from it completely.
Who are the Pilgrims (or Separatists)?
Signed aboard their ship, this agreement created a system of self-government and just laws for the Plymouth colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
In the autumn of 1621, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag held a three-day harvest celebration known today as this event.
What is the First Thanksgiving?
Puritan leader John Winthrop famously described their ideal community as a "city upon a..." this.
What is a hill?
After a period of time.
What is eventually?
The ship that carried 102 passengers across the stormy Atlantic Ocean to New England in 1620.
is the Mayflower?
This Patuxet native spoke English and helped the Pilgrims survive by teaching them how to plant corn using fish as fertilizer.
Who is Squanto (Tisquantum)?
This religious group arrived in New England a decade after the Pilgrims to start a colony where they could practice their religion freely and set an example for others.
Who are the Puritans?
Puritans placed a huge emphasis on education so that children could read this specific holy book.
What is the Bible?
Exclusive control of trade in a certain area.
What is a monopoly?
French explorer Jacques Cartier mapped the St. Lawrence River while searching for this legendary water route through North America to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This French explorer traveled all the way down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, claiming the entire valley for King Louis XIV.
Who is Robert de La Salle?
Sailing for the Dutch, this English explorer claimed the river and area around modern-day New York for the Netherlands in 1609.
Who is Henry Hudson?
French fur traders and missionaries lived among Native American tribes and formed a strong trade alliance with this specific Native American group near the Great Lakes.
Who are the Huron (or Algonquian)?
An area controlled and governed by a King or Queen.
What is a royal province?
In 1608, Samuel de Champlain established Quebec, which became the first permanent settlement in this French territory.
What is New France?
La Salle named this vast territory in honor of King Louis XIV of France.
What is Louisiana?
The Dutch colony located in present-day New York and New Jersey was called this.
What is New Netherland?
While the French allied with the Huron, the Dutch formed a trade and military alliance with this powerful group of five Native American nations.
Who are the Iroquois (or Iroquois Confederacy)?
A way in which people or things are connected.
What is a relationship?
French trappers and traders relied heavily on friendly relationships with Native Americans to trade European metal goods for this valuable fur.
What is beaver fur?
Unlike English colonies populated by thousands of farming families, New France grew very slowly mainly because it relied on this industry scattered over large areas.
Unlike English colonies populated by thousands of farming families, New France grew very slowly mainly because it relied on this industry scattered over large areas.
This town on Manhattan Island served as the capital of New Netherland and later became New York City.
What is New Amsterdam?
Unlike the French who generally maintained peace through trade, the Dutch fought violent wars with local Native Americans mainly because the Dutch wanted to take this resource for farming.
What is land?