Vocabulary
What is a portage?
An Italian sea captain who was sent in search of a Northwest Passage.
Who is John Cabot?
This document was the first form of self-government in North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Europeans wanted this direct water route to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
What is a charter?
An English captain whose strict discipline allowed Jamestown to survive.
Who is Captain John Smith?
The Wampanoag helped this group of people by teaching them to farm and hunt.
Who are the Pilgrims
The Europeans did not find a Northwest passage. Instead they discovered which land of rich resources.
What is North America?
The colony leader of Roanoke, VA?
Captain John Smith forced these settlers to work to build their homes and grow their food.
The amount of money that remains after the costs of a business have been paid.
What is a profit?
What is an armada?
The Jamestown leader who made tobacco a cash crop.
Who is John Rolfe?
This cash crop made the settlers of Jamestown rich.
What is tobacco?
Shares or ownership of a company.
What are stocks?
An agreement written by the Pilgrims as a form of government for the new colony.
Queen Elizabeth's advisor who sent colonist to colonize America for England.
This disappearing colony is known as the "lost colony" because when John White returned the people were gone.
The wife of John Rolfe who created peace amongst the Native Americans and the colonists for a short time.
Who is Pocahontas?