Important People
This explorer is credited with "finding the Americas".
Christopher Columbus
Know as The Lost Colony
Roanoke
What word was written on a tree at the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
Croatoan
What happened in the year 1492?
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
What ocean did most of the explorers sail across?
The Atlantic.
He spent a lot of his time exploring looking for the Northwest Passage.
Henry Hudson
This colony was lead by John Smith.
Jamestown
She was the chief's daughter that saved John Smith.
Pocahontas
What was the name of the church in England that people started seperating from?
Roman Catholic Church.
Give an example of something bad for the Natives and the people of the Americas that they received from the Europeans in the Columbian Exchange.
Disease
He is credited with saving the Jamestown colony with his hard rules.
John Smith
This colony was started by Pilgrams.
Plymouth
What was the Mayflower Compact?
The Plymouth Colony and the Pilgram's first form of government.
What important event do we still celebrate today thanks to the Pilgrams and the Wampanoag?
Thanksgiving
What is an indentured servant?
Someone whose voage was paid for but they must work for 5-7 years for free to pay off their debt before they are free.
He was the explorer who tried to start a colony at Roanoke.
John White
This colony wouldn't have survived without the help of the Wampanoag tribe.
Plymouth
Name the 3 main reasons explorers started exploring.
God, Glory, and Gold
Explain the Columbian Exchange.
The goods traded between the Europeans and people from the Americas.
Who was the Native American credited with saving the Pilgrams lives?
Squanto
He is credited with also saving the Jamestown Colony by planting tobacco crops.
John Rolfe
This colony started the House of Burgesses as their first government.
Jamestown
Name the 3 ships Columbus and his people came in.
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
What was the Peace of Pocahonatas?
John Rolfe married her and because of this two two groups of people had many years of happiness togather. The Jamestown people and the Powhatan Tribe.
Name 3 pieces of technology and explain what they did and how they helped the explorers.
Compass- N, S, E, W, Gunpowder- win wars,
Printing Press- make maps, Lateen sail- faster,
Astroble- latitude, Chronometer- longitude,
Sextant- latitude