True or False: Samuel de Champlain founded a trading post.
True
100
A large fleet of ships.
What is an armada?
100
The daughter of Powhatan; married John Rolfe.
Who was Pocahontas?
100
One of the first steps to self-government in North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
The amount of money that remains after the costs of a business have been paid.
What is a profit?
200
They tried to convert Native Americans to the Roman Catholic religion.
What is the French missionary goal?
200
A document permitting colonists to settle land claimed by their ruler.
What is a charter?
200
Name an additional event that helped Jamestown grow. A: John White sent colonists across the ocean. B: They build more homes. C: Virginia Company sent women to the colony, then families started.
C was correct.
200
A leader that headed each group of Native Americans.
What is a sachem?
300
A land route from one body of water to another.
What is a portage?
300
In 1673, they set out to find the Mississippi River.
What is the goal of Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet?
300
Shares of ownership of a company.
What is a stock?
300
True or False: A Dutch ship anchored off shore and needed supplies is how the Dutch survived.
False
300
Word/Denifition: He allowed the Pilgrims to settle in Virginia.
King James 1
400
A valuable fishing area discovered by John Cabot.
What is the Grand Banks?
400
Developed relationships with Native American groups.
What is one of the benefits of European exploration of North America?
400
A crop that is sold for money.
What is a cash crop?
400
Strong leader, they would have not survived without him.
What is John Smith's leadership?
400
The ship that the Pilgrims traveled in to reach North America.
What is the Mayflower?
500
True or False: The Grand Banks was found by many other travelers on other expeditions.
False
500
Canada's cold climate made farming difficult.
What is one of the 3 reasons why colonists did not settle in New France in 1600s?
500
The Roanoke colony leader.
Who is John White?
500
It was the name of an island and a group of Native Americans.
What is Croation?
500
An English military officer hired by Plymouth Colony to be a commander and military adviser.