What is a large fleet of ships, especially warships?
Armada
100
Who is the English captain who was hired by the Dutch East India Company to search for the Northwest Passage to Asia?
Henry Hudson
100
What is the name of the trading post Samuel de Champlain founded that became the first permanent settlement in North America?
Quebec
100
What is this cash crop that King James I called a "stinking weed"?
Tobacco
100
What is the feast called the Native Americans shared with the Pilgrims?
Thanksgiving
200
What is a land route between bodies of water?
Portage
200
Who is the leader of the English colony of Roanoke in 1587?
John White
200
What is the water route through North America to Asia called?
Northwest Passage
200
What is the name of the "Lost Colony", an Algonkian word that was settled in 1585?
Roanoke
200
Why did the Pilgrims end up in New England instead of Jamestown?
a storm blew them off course
300
What is an official document giving permission to do something, such as settle in an area?
Charter
300
Who is the English army captain whose strict discipline helped Jamestown settlement survive?
Captain John Smith
300
Who are the group of people who lived in the Huron villages while trying to convert Native Americans to the Roman Catholic faith?
French missionaries
300
What is the name of the country that in the late 1500s became one of the wealthiest countries in Europe?
Spain
300
What are the name of the three Native Americans that were an important part of the Pilgrims survival in Plymouth?
Squanto, Massasoit, Samoset
400
What is a person who bounds himself of herself to serve someone for a certain period of time in exchange for something?
Indentured Servant
400
Who is a Native American who was captured in 1615 by English sailors and escaped to help the Pilgrims at Plymouth survive in 1619?
Squanto
400
Who is French priest that went in search for the Northwest Passage to Asia, but found the Mississippi River instead?
Jacques Marquette
400
She converted to Christianity as the daughter of a Powhatan in 1614 and married an English man?
Pocahontas
400
What is the document that stated the Pilgrims agreed to obey all the laws of the colony, only men signed this agreement, it was one of the first steps to self-government in North America?
Mayflower Compact
500
What is the lawmaking body of colonial Virginia, established in Jamestown in 1619?
House of Burgesses
500
Who is an English Army captain at Plymouth who helped the Pilgrims?
Miles Standish
500
What is the new kind of company created to help finance many of the explorers expeditions?
Dutch East India Company
500
What is the name of the colony in Virginia that was founded in 1607, the first permanent English colony in North America?
Jamestown
500
What are the names of the two groups of people that were friendly at first, but later, because one group began taking more land became bitter enemies?