Vocabulary
Continents of North America- including Central & South America
The Americas
What are illnesses or sicknesses?
Diseases
Whom did Spain send to take control of land and people in Mexico and Central and South America?
Conquistadors
Tobacco farmers used enslaved people who were brought by force from ________________.
Africa
Large amounts of money or belongings
Riches
People who move to live in a new place.
Settlers
Why did Spain and Portugal want to control Mexico and Central and South America?
They wanted riches.
The Pilgrims meant to go to Virginia but instead settled in _________________ after their ship was blown off course.
Plymouth
Spanish word for conquerors.
Conquistador
What happened to Roanoke Colony?
It disappeared.
The very first English settlement disappeared from ___________.
Roanoke
Who was the Native American who could speak English and helped the Pilgrims?
Squanto
Christopher Columbus Hernan Cortez & Francisco Pizarro
To trade is to?
Exchange goods or give something to someone for something else.
John Smith was one of the leaders of ______________.
Jamestown
What colony was started by the Puritans?
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The king and queen who hired Christopher Columbus.
King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
What colony was named after a king of england?
Jamestown
The settlers at Jamestown survived because they had help from _______.
The Powhatan
The Puritans believed that everyone should have an education and everyone should _______________.
have job skills