Important Vocabulary Part #1
A document from the King or Queen giving a person or group permission to set up a colony.
What is a Royal Charter?
Important cash crop that saved Jamestown?
What is tobacco?
The Separatists/Pilgrims wanted to do what from the Church of England?
What is seperate?
The 3 G's
What are gold, glory and God?
A person who has agreed to work for someone else without pay in exchange for passage, food, clothes etc
What is an indentured servant?
What is Roanoke?
A territory under the control of a distant nation.
What is a colony?
He enforced a rule for the colonists that if you don't work, you don't eat.
Who is Captain John Smith?
The pilgrims' colony in North America was different than Europe because it had ________________________.
What are longer and colder winters?
English settlers, like the Pilgrims, came to North America for this reason.
What is religious freedom?
Holding people against their will to work without pay.
What is slavery?
First successful English colony led by John Smith.
What is Jamestown?
Someone who is chosen by voters to speak for them.
What is a representative?
Group of people who provided the colonists with corn and other food during the Starving Time.
Who were the Powhatans?
Helped the Pilgrims learn how to hunt and fish.
Who were Native Americans like Squanto and Massasoit?
European countries wanting to find new sources of resources and new markets for their goods was a _______________ reason for colonization.
What is economic?
Early settlers of the Plymouth colony in what is now Massachusetts; long journey for religious reasons.
Who were the Pilgrims?
Colony founded by the Separatist/Pilgrims.
What is Plymouth?
First legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America; established in Virginia colony.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The relationship between the Powhatan and the colonists deteriorated because of different views on _______________________.
What is land ownership?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The French trading with Native Americans for beaver pelts is an example of a new ______________ relationship.
What is trade?
A document or item that is original to an event or created by someone who was witness to the event.
What is a primary source?
Native Americans that worked with and against Jamestown.
Who were the Powhatan?
Any crop grown for sale and profit.
What is a cash crop?
The growing need for more land in Jamestown to grow tobacco led to conflict with Powhatans over their _________________________________.
What is way of life?
Electing their own governors and creating their own laws is an example of __________________.
What is self-government?
A political reason for competing to claim __________ in North America.
What is land?
A source that is written or created by someone who did not witness an event.
What is a secondary source?
Native American tribe that helped the Pilgrims survive. Chief Massasoit was their leader.
Who were the Wampanoag?