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100
What word means an agreement?
What is a compact.
100
What do you call a person who agrees to work for a certain number of years?
What is an indentured servant.
100
What English queen fought the Spanish King Philip?
Who is queen Elizabeth I.
100
Why were people looking for a water passage through North America?
What is .... because they wanted a faster way.
100
Roaoke was called the __________ colony.
What is "lost".
200
What do you call "sticking your flag in the ground" and controling land for your country?
What is claim.
200
What word was carved into the tree at Roanoke?
What is "Croatoan".
200
Who said "He who does not work will not eat"?
Who is John Smith.
200
Why did the Pilgrims come to North America?
What is ... they wanted freedom of religion.
200
What Canadian territory was used for fur trading?
What is Quebec.
300
What is the Spanish word for a large fleet of ships?
What is armada.
300
What was life like for the settlers at Jamestown?
What is ... life was hard, food and water were hard to find, and many died.
300
Who married Pocahontas?
Who is John Rolfe.
300
Why was Louisiana named Louisiana?
What is .... it was named after King Louis XIV of France.
300
What do you call the time in Jamestown when food and water were hard to come by?
What is "the starving time".
400
What do you call a person who makes a long journey for religious reasons?
What is a pilgrim.
400
After the English defeated the Spanish Armada, what did they do?
What is .... they claimed more land in the Americas.
400
What group settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
What is the Puritans.
400
Why did Queen Elizabeth attack Spain's ships?
What is ... to take their gold, silver, and treasure.
400
Governor Minuit bought Manhattan Island and named the area ________________.
What is New York.
500
What do you call a variety of people in a group?
What is diversity.
500
What is the name of the first French settlement in North America?
What is Quebec.
500
Robert _____________ claimed the Mississippi River and Louisiana.
What is La Salle.
500
Why did the Powhatan Indians and the Pilgrims make peace?
What is .... Pocahontas (a Powhatan) married a Pilgrim man.
500
Pocahontas was a ______________ Indian.
What is Powhatan.