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Section 1: Early English Settlements
Section 2: New England Colonies
Important People
Important Documents
Vocabulary
100
This colony was the first attempt to colonize North America, but all the colonists disappeared without explanation.
What is Roanoke or "The Lost Colony"
100
This was the name given to people who wanted to reform the Anglican Church
Who are the Puritans
100
This was an English Adventurer who attacked Spanish ships and as then granted knighthood by Queen Elizabeth.
Who is Sir Francis Drake
100
These were documents that granted companies or individuals the right to settle on foreign land.
What are charters
100
This was the name of Spain’s mighty naval fleet.
What is the Spanish Armada
200
This was the name of the joint-stock company that funded the settlement of Jamestown.
What is The Virginia Company
200
This was the name given to the people who wanted to completely separate from the Anglican Church.
Who are Separatists or Pilgrims
200
This was the name of the experienced explorer who was saved by Chief Powhatan’s daughter.
Who is John Smith
200
This was the document that pledged the Pilgrims’ loyalty to England.
What is the Mayflower Compact
200
This was a vocabulary word that meant “to disagree”
What is dissent
300
These were representatives of Jamestown that made laws for the colony.
Who are burgesses
300
These were the names of the two Native Americans that aided the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
Who are Squanto and Samoset
300
This was the name of the man who started planting tobacco in Jamestown:
Who is John Rolfe
300
This was the name given of the first government used in Jamestown:
What is the House of Burgesses
300
This was the vocabulary word for large companies that teamed up with England to settle the New World:
What is Joint-Stock Companies
400
This was the word written on a tree when scouts came back to Roanoke:
What is "Croaton"
400
Daily Double!!!! This was the name of the ship the Puritans used to travel to the New World:
What is the Mayflower
400
This is the man credited with sending scouts who eventually settled Roanoke
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh
400
This was the name of the first American constitution used in Connecticut:
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
400
This is the vocabulary word meaning "a plan of action:"
What is policy
500
This was the name of the Queen who began using sea dogs to explore the New World:
Who is Queen Elizabeth
500
This was the name of the tribe that the Pilgrims became allies with:
Who are the Wampanoag people
500
This was the King of England who began giving companies charters:
Who is King James I
500
This is the term for the type of government that has a King or Queen as the leader of a country:
What is a monarchy
500
This is the vocabulary term for a "land grant:"
What is a headright