Vocabulary
What is the best definition for the term colony?
What is a settlement ruled by another country?
Explain the Northwest Passage.
The Northwest Passage is a waterway along the north coast of North America that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
Where is Roanoke Island located?
What is on the Outer Banks of North Carolina?
Where is Jamestown located?
What is Virginia?
Where is Plymouth Colony located?
What is Massachusetts?
What is the best definition of the term royal colony?
What is a colony ruled by a monarch?
Queen Elizabeth I had an agreement with ___________________ to attack Spanish ships and steal their cargo.
Who is Francis Drake?
Who was the leader of Roanoke Island?
Who is John White?
Explain why Jamestown was a poor choice for a settlement.
What are the land was swampy and the water was not healthy to drink.
What group of people founded Plymouth Colony?
Who are the Pilgrims?
What is the best definition of the term proprietor?
What is owner?
Francis Drake was a ______________ ___________. also known as a pirate.
What is a sea dog?
Why did John White leave the colonists to go back to England?
What is to get more supplies?
Jamestown was named after _________________.
Who is King James of England?
Explain why Pilgrims left England for a new life in America.
Pilgrims wanted religious freedom.
What is the best definition for the term colonist?
What is a person who lives in a colony?
Explain the agreement between Queen Elizabeth I and sea dogs.
Queen Elizabeth promised to protect the sea dogs as long as they shared their wealth with the government.
When John White returned to Roanoke, what did he find carved into a tree?
What is CROATOAN?
Who was the leader of Jamestown that initiated the rule, " If you do not work, you do not eat."?
Who is John Smith?
The name of the boat that the Pilgrims traveled on was called the __________________.
What is the Mayflower?
What is the best definition of the term proprietary colony?
What is a colony ruled by one person?
Although Spain had more riches than England, England had _______________.
What are fast ships and skilled sailors?
Explain ONE theory that attempts to explain what happened to the missing colonists.
Answers vary.
How did the colonists adapt to life at Jamestown?
What is they became farmers and realized that they needed to grow crops in order to survive.
Before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Colony, they signed an agreement known as the _________________ ______________________.
What is the Mayflower Compact?