Causes of Colonization
What is the main country that colonized the present day USA?
What is England?
This was one of the first colonies in America and it was in present day Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
Jamestown was a colony in this present day state.
What is Virginia?
Plymouth Colony is in this present day state.
What is Massachusetts?
What is the name of the third colony we discussed in class?
What is Massachusetts Bay?
Many people agreed to go to the new world because they wanted __________ freedom.
What is religious?
This was the most important crop for Jamestown Colony.
What is tobacco?
The Jamestown Colony was strategically set up by/near what?
Water/River
This holiday was formed from the people in the Plymouth Colony.
What is Thanksgiving?
How many original colonies were in the USA?
What is 13?
England had a big rivalry with this country and wanted to claim land and riches for themselves.
What is Spain?
This was the governing document of Plymouth Colony, and it was named after their ship.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
One of the reasons Jamestown struggled early on was because the men refused to ________.
What is work?
This was the name of the ship that brought the settlers to Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower?
What is the name of the person that John Smith married?
Who was Pocahontas?
Many people thought that they could become very _________ by coming to colonize the new world and looking for valuable materials.
What is rich?
This is what the people who formed Plymouth Colony were called.
What are pilgrims?
This person/tribe greatly helped the Jamestown colony.
Who is Powhatan?
This Native American was responsible helping Plymouth Colony to survive.
Who is Squanto?
What year did the USA sign the Declaration of Independence?
What is 1776?
These are companies that allowed for many of the colonies that formed to happen in the first place.
What are joint-stock companies?
This was the law-making body that was eventually created in Jamestown after many years of having no government.
The first winter in Jamestown Colony was called this.
What is the starving time?
Squanto taught the Plymouth Colony how to do what two things?
Who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Who is John Winthrop?