French and Spanish Footholds
The main occupation of French settlers in the New World.
What is a fur trader?
The first English child born in the New World.
Who was Virginia Dare?
The rule established by John Smith to ensure all colonists contributed to the work.
What is "he who does not work, will not eat"?
The daughter of Powhatan who helped establish peace and brought food to the Jamestown settlers
Who was Pocahontas?
The name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
This oldest city in North America was built by the Spanish in 1565.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
The mysterious word found carved on a tree at the vanished Roanoke Colony.
What is "CROATOAN"?
This cash crop became so important it was even grown in the streets of Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
The English settler who married Pocahontas, bringing temporary peace.
Who was John Rolfe?
The document the Pilgrims created and signed, agreeing to make and obey laws for their new settlement.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
French missionaries taught this to Native Americans, generally without using force.
What is Christianity?
The man who started the ill-fated settlement on Roanoke Island in 1585.
Who was Walter Raleigh?
The arrival of a Dutch ship in 1619 brought this group of people to be sold as laborers.
Who were African slaves?
This Native American was the first to deed land to English colonists and helped them understand one another.
Who was Samoset?
This religious group, seeking to practice their faith freely, settled the Plymouth Colony.
Who were the Pilgrims?
In 1609, this city was the Spanish capital of northern Mexico
What is Santa Fe?
The year the English successfully established their colony at Jamestown.
What is 1607?
An important event of 1619, this allowed colonists to elect representatives and was the beginning of self-government.
What was the establishment of a new government (or House of Burgesses)?
The leader who took charge of Jamestown during its difficult first year.
Who was John Smith?
The Dutch trading city built where New York City is now.
What is New Amsterdam?
The French traded items like guns, knives, and ammunition with Native Americans in exchange for this valuable commodity.
What are furs?
Besides food shortages, the Roanoke colonists also faced conflict with this group.
Who were the Native Americans?
Jamestown was built on this type of land, which led to problems with mosquitoes and disease.
What is low, marshy land?
The disease Pocahontas died from while in England.
What is smallpox?
The rich and quickly growing colony established by about a thousand Puritans in 1630.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?