French and Dutch Colonies
Jamestown
Pilgrims
New England Colonies
Vocabulary
100

The name of the Dutch colonies in America.

What is New Netherland?

100

The Powhatan Princess that "saved" John Smith and brought peace between the Jamestown settlers and the Native Americans.

Who is Pocahontas?

100

The boat that the Pilgrims sailed over on.

What is the Mayflower?

100

The colony started by John Winthrop and the Puritans from England.

What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?

100

An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.

What is alliance?

200

The main way French and Dutch colonies made money in America.

What is the fur trade?

200

The Jamestown leader, captain, and soldier who claimed "He who will not work, shall not eat"

Who is John Smith?

200

The document that 41 Pilgrim men signed on their way over to America to give them self governance.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

200

The colony created by Roger Williams as a place of religious freedom and tolerance.

What is Rhode Island?

200

The unfair treatment or punishment of certain people because of their religious beliefs.

What is persecution?

300
The river that the Dutch founded New Amsterdam on

What is the Hudson River?

300

The crop that Jamestown settlers began farming and making a lot of money from.

What is tobacco?

300

Where the Pilgrims landed and the name of the settlement that they created.

What is Plymouth?

300

A woman who was banished from Massachusetts Bay, and joined Roger Williams in Rhode Island.

Who is Anne Hutchinson?

300

Religious people who traveled long distances to find a place where they could live and worship as they wanted.

What are Pilgrims?

400

The waterway through or around North America to Asia that Europeans were looking for.

What is the northwest passage?

400

The people that the Jamestown settlers captured and brought to America to farm tobacco for them.

Who are enslaved Africans?

400

The last Patuxet Native American who taught the Pilgrims how to plant food and catch fish.

Who is Squanto?

400
The man who left Massachusetts Bay to start Connecticut.

Who is Thomas Hooker?

400

A religious group from England that did not want to separate from the Church of England, but wanted to "purify" the Church.

What are Puritans?

500

French colonists who lived and worked in American Indian lands instead of French settlements.

What is coureurs de bois?
500

The brutal winter in 1609-1610 that killed many Jamestown settlers and forced them to eat dogs, rats, and snakes.

What is the "Starving Time"?

500
The leader of the Pilgrims.

Who is William Bradford?

500

The war between Metacom and allied Native Americans against New England settlers who took Native land.

What is King Philip's War?

500

The willingness to let other practice their own religious beliefs.

What is religious tolerance?