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100
This is why England's rulers wanted to start a colony in America.
What is they wanted to find gold and silver?
100
These were three problems with the land upoon which Jamestown was built.
What is the land was damp and marshy, the water was not good for drinking, and insects carried diseases?
100
This was the reason the pilgrims left Europe to start a new colony in North America.
What is they wanted religious freedom?
100
This was the name of the American Indian who helped the pilgrims plant crops their first spring.
Who was Squanto?
100
This was the Dutch explorer who claimed land in the Americas for the Netherlands.
Who was Henry Hudson?
200
This was the name of the first colony the English tried to start in America.
What is Roanoke Island?
200
This was the leader who took over Jamestown and helped make it successful with his motto, "He who does not work will not eat."
Who was John Smith?
200
This was the name of the ship that the pilgrims sailed on to get to America.
What is the Mayflower?
200
This was why the pilgrims and Indians celebrated the first Thanksgiving.
What is to give thanks to God for their first successful harvest?
200
This was the trading company that controlled the New Netherlands settlement.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
300
This is the reason the first English colony failed.
What is all the colonists disappeared?
300
This was the cash crop that helped make Jamestown successful.
What is tobacco?
300
This was the name of the colony the pilgrims started in America.
What is Plymouth?
300
This was the name of the colony the Puritans started in America.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
300
This is what the English renamed New Amsterdam when they took control of it from the Dutch.
What is New York?
400
This is the name the first English colony became known as.
What is the "Lost Colony"?
400
This was the name of the powerful Native American group that fought with the settlers when they refused to help them fight their enemies.
Who were the Powhatans?
400
This was the name of the first plan for government in North America that was created by the pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
This is what John Winthrop, the Puritans' governor, meant when he said, "We shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us."
What is they should set a good example for others.
400
This is where Louis Jolliet thought the Mississippi River might lead.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
This was the name of the first successful English colony in America.
What is Jamestown?
500
This event temporarily brought peace between the Jamestown settlers and Native Americans.
What was the marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas?
500
This was the reason half of the pilgrims died that first harsh winter.
What is they arrived too late to plant crops and died of starvation?
500
This is what the Puritans wanted for the church.
What is to make it pure or free from fault?
500
This is who claimed the Mississippi River and all the land around it for France.
Who was Robert La Salle?