Jamestown
The present state where the Jamestown colony was
Where is Virginia?
Why did the Separatists (Pilgrims) leave England?
What is religious freedom?
Used to elect the president and vice president in the United States
What is the Electoral College system?
A group seeking to purify or change the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
Governor of New Netherlands, surrendered the colony to the British with no fight.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant.
The person responsible for the famous phrase "He will who will not work, Shall not eat!"
Who is John Smith?
A document signed by the Pilgrims before their arrival agreeing to set up and obey basic laws for the good of the colony. Very important in the development of democratic government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Something innocent women and some men were accused of in Salem Massachusetts
What is witchcraft?
He led the Puritans as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, establishing a community with strict moral and religious rules."
Who is John Winthrop?
After relinquishing Dutch control of New Netherlands to the English it was divided into which two NEW colonies
Where is New York and New Jersey
A Cash crop that made the Jamestown colony financially successful, also led to the importation of enslaved African People
What is tobacco?
Native leaders who helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter (2 people)
Who are Squanto and Samoset?
A colony set up before Jamestown that mysteriously disappeared, the only trace left was the word CROATOAN carved into a tree.
What is Roanoke?
The main reason the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Religious Freedom / Setting up a government based on their religion.
Founded by French Protestant Huguenot refugees in 1678 after facing persecution in France and buying 40,000 acres from the Lenape
Where is New Paltz?
The Tribe who controlled the area where Jamestown was established. They had a rocky relationship withthe settlers, they helped but also fought with the settlers
Who were the Powhattan?
The Native tribe the Pilgrims formed an Alliance with
Who are the Wampanoags?
A state that could reasonably be won by either the Democratic or Republican candidate in a statewide election, also known as a "battleground state." Examples are Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona.
What is a Swing State?
"The Puritans fought this Native American tribe in a conflict that ended in victory for the Puritans, allowing them to expand their territory."
Who were the Pequot
The first Major Dutch Settlement in the Hudson Valley
Where is Kingston?
The first system of representative government in the colonies based on the English Parliament, set an example for future colonies and laid some of the groundwork for our government today.
What is the House of Burgesses?
After finding religious freedom in the Netherlands the Pilgrims ultimately left to go to America for these reasons
What are lack of jobs and preserving their English ways?
The minimum amount of Electoral votes required to win a presidential election
What is 270
This war was raging across much of Europe between Catholics and Protestants between 1618 and 1648
What was the 30 Years War?
A word that means "little stream" in Dutch, it is a way you can see the Dutch legacy in the name of many NY towns, places, streams, and other geographic features. The word means something very different in English.
What is "Kill"