Academic Language I
A serious disagreement, argument or fight.
What is a conflict?
A person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area.
What is a settler?
Christopher Columbus sailed west, seeking this.
What is a way to India?
The native people of the island of Hispaniola, modern day Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
What are the Arawak, or Taino people?
The first permanent English colony in North America.
Jamestown, Virginia.
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
What is a colony?
A large agricultural property dedicated to growing a few crops at a large scale for commercial sale.
What is a plantation?
Christopher Columbus was sponsored by this nation.
What is Spain.
What Columbus did on the first inhabited island he came to.
What is kidnap local people?
A group of Puritans who traveled to Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The Pilgrims.
The process of converting land to a new purpose by constructing buildings or making use of its resources.
What is development?
Advance or development toward a better, more complete, or more modern condition.
Progress
These religious groups wanted to fix the Church of England (Anglican Church).
What are Puritans?
This item convinced Columbus he could become rich and led to the enslavement of the Taino people.
What are gold earrings?
In order to afford passage to North America many colonists spent time as these.
What are indentured servants?
The process by which goods, ideas and people are moved or adopted by different global regions.
Global Interactions
The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
Genocide
This caused many English to seek out opportunities in the Americas.
What is population growth and loss of land.
The Taino population of Hispaniola before contact with Europeans.
What is 250,000 or a quarter of a million?
This event caused the war between Jamestown and the Powhatan.
What is the Powhatan tribe refused to return English settlers who had joined the tribe during the starving time/Winter.
The process of surrounding land with walls or fences.
Mr. Schuler's favorite word, it means to throw someone out of a window.
Was very famous in England when they arrived.
Who is Pocahontas?
The modern day nations on the island of Hispaniola.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
According to John Smith, the chief of the Powhatan tribe offered to trade him land and food for these items.
What are copper hatchets and a cannon.