Famous Navigators
Plymouth Colony
Vocabulary
Jamestown Colony
Interactions between groups
100
This famous navigator was the first to come to America, and has a famous holiday named after him that is also known as Indigenous People's Day.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
The Plymouth colony famously celebrated their 1621 Harvest, with many claiming they invited the Wampanoag tribe. This celebration would later become this November holiday.
What is Thanksgiving?
100
To travel all the way around the Earth.
What is Circumnavigate?
100
This 13 year old girl saved the colonists, serving as a peacemaker between colonists and the Powhatan tribe.
Who is Pocahontas?
100
Jamestown famously had none of these people until after 9 months, when the first volunteers arrived to help create permanent homes and families.
Who are women?
200
This man sailed with Columbus, and his name is remembered today for the name "America"
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
This Separatist group from England would come to the Plymouth colony, wearing their famous buckled hats shown below
Who are the Pilgrims?
200
To force somebody to work as a slave (not indentured servitude)
What is enslave?
200
This crop, introduced by John Rolfe, made the Jamestown colony financially successful, leading the way to the creation of cigarettes.
What is tobacco?
200
Colonists would regularly fight with these groups, for they were often fighting over land and supplies.
Who are Native Americans?
300
European sailors regularly came to the Americas searching for this mythical waterway that would cut through the United States and go to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
This Native American man is responsible for saving the Pilgrims, for he knew English and could translate and taught farming techniques to survive.
Who is Squanto?
300
A common disease among sailors that is caused by a lack of vitamin C (from fruit).
What is scurvy?
300
Although the movie portrays him as the husband of Pocahontas, the two never married. He is actually well known for introducing a force work program to stop settlers from starving.
Who is John Smith?
300
Francis Bacon was the most famous of these, a group who joined up with enslaved Africans in his rebellion.
Who are Indentured Servants?
400
This British sailor sailed for both England and the Netherlands (Dutch), founding New York and getting his own Great Lake.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
This agreement set the Plymouth colony up under "Self-Government", and allowed settlers to discuss issues, elect leaders, and vote on equal and just rights. Modeled after the Ancient Greeks.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
an economic policy in which the goal is to gain wealth by exporting more goods than are imported
What is mercantilism?
400
The Jamestown colony established the House of Burgesses, modeling themselves after this famous ancient Republic.
Who is the Roman Republic/Rome?
400
This group arrived to Jamestown in 1619, making the colony profitable and changing the course of American history.
Who are ensalved Africans?
500
Although Ferdinand Magellan is credited with circumnavigating the world first, it is likely that this enslaved man did so over a year before any of Magellan's crew.
Who is Enrique of Malacca?
500
The first governor of Plymouth, who helped the colonists survive its early years.
Who is William Bradford?
500
a government in which the people have the power, but elect officials to represent them.
What is representative democracy?
500
Jamestown famously stole land from Native Americans, claiming this and establishing personal control.
What is private ownership?
500
Europeans, especially the Spanish, established these to help spread Catholicism to the Native Americans.
What are missions?