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ALL IS FAIR IN HISTORY AND JEOPARDY
100
Jamestown and the James river were named after him.
Who is King James I
100
People invest in this in hopes that they will create a successful colony& pay dividends when the colony becomes profitable.
What is a Joint Stock Company
100
They originally intended to settle here, but ended up off course.
What is Jamestown?
100
These Indians traded with the settlers of Jamestown.
Who is the Powhatan tribe?
100
This was a period of religious revival, leading to a migration of puritans to the New World.
What is the Great Awakening?
200
The daughter of Chief Powatan, she translated between colonists and the Powatan tribe.
Who Is Pocahontas?
200
This is a person working off their debt in servitude.
What is an indentured servant?
200
This is where the pilgrims landed
What is Plymouth rock?
200
This tribe attacked the Jamestown colony.
Who is the Algonquian tribe?
200
This is the name of a failed colony. The only thing left behind from the colonists was a cryptic word: Croatoa.
What is Roanoke
300
He made Jamestown profitable.
Who is John Rolfe?
300
This word means able to survive or maintain.
What is sustainable?
300
This is the year that the Mayflower Pilgrims came to the New World.
When is 1620?
300
What was the name of the period after John Smith left Jamestown due to a gunpowder burn?
What are the Starving Times?
300
This is the year that the French arrived in the New World
What is 1608?
400
He started the Church of England.
Who is Henry VIII
400
This was official permission to start colonies.
What is a Charter?
400
He was the leader of the Pilgrims.
Who is William Bradford?
400
These two colonial superpowers treated the Native Americans poorly.
Who are the English and the Spanish?
400
The Pilgrims landed outside of the area acknowledged by the Virginia Charter, which is why they drafted this document.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
500
This 'cowardly king' signed the Magna Carta.
Who is John I?
500
The transmission of elements or aspects of one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
The Mayflower Compact outlined a plan for this, which is a term also meaning self-government and majority rule.
What is Civil Body Politic?
500
This was the first example of a representative government in the New World.
What is the House of Burgesses?
500
They came to the New World to purify and reform the church of England.
Who are the Puritans?