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Early Settlement
Government
100
In 1492, he sailed the ocean blue.
What is Christopher Columbus
100
This was the first college in the colonies and was started by the Puritans.
What is Harvard
100
Group of people from England who wanted to separate themselves from the Church of England.
What is Separatists
100
Island off the coast of North Carolina, site of England's first attempt at a permanent settlement in the America's; also known as the "Lost Colony".
What is Roanoke Island
100
This was the center of Puritan religious and government activities. **They would MEET here!
What is a meeting house
200
Leader of the Indian tribe that captured John Smith.
What is Powhatan
200
This is a town in southeastern Massachusetts that was founded by the Pilgrims in 1620.
What is Plymouth
200
A person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America.
What is an indentured servant
200
First permanent English colony in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown
200
The Puritans came to America in search of this.
What is religious freedom
300
This King and Queen financed Christopher Columbus's journey to the new world.
What is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
300
This colony included Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
What is New England Colonies
300
Group of people who wanted to "purify" the Church of England.
What is Puritans
300
This crop saved Jamestown.
What is tobacco
300
A law-making assembly in colonial Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses
400
He was leader of the Pilgrims who came to North America on the Mayflower. He also founded Plymouth colony in 1620.
What is William Bradford.
400
This colony included New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
What is the Middle Colonies
400
Unjust treatment because of someone's beliefs.
What is persecution
400
Jamestown is located here.
What is Virginia
400
This is a plan of government written by the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower.
What is the Mayflower Compact
500
He was a Puritan leader and the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
What is John Winthrop
500
This colony included Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.
What is the Southern Colonies
500
This is a share in a company.
What is a stock
500
He was the first to sell tobacco as a cash crop. He also married Pocahontas.
What is John Rolfe
500
Leaders of the government in Puritan settlement were called this.
What is magistrates