Vocabulary
An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.
What is an alliance?
French explores settled in this present day country in North America.
What is Canada
This company was formed to start a moneymaking colony in Virginia.
What is the Virginia Company
The Dutch became competitors with the French in this business.
What is fur trading
What were the three G's that explorers were in search of?
What is God, glory, and gold
When male settlers were allow to elect representatives what is the term and what was the first one these created by a colony in July and August 1619.
What is representative government...the House of Burgesses.
The French made a fortune in this business.
What is fur trading
All of the people in this colony disappeared without a trace.
What is the lost colony of Roanoke
Who is the Native Americans
This is the year that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
What is 1492
This uprising last a short time was organized by one individual who led angry men and women on the frontier that raided Native American villages and eventually went to Jamestown and burned the capital.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This was ONE of France's motivations for exploration.
What is envy, riches, profit, wealth, or land
This was the first permanent English Colony
What is Jamestown
This Dutch explorer has a river named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson
This is the religion the Spaniards introduced into the New World.
What is Christianity or Catholicism
These were French colonist that lived and worked in Native Americans land beyond the French settlements, and established trade of beaver skins and animal furs that were highly valued in Europe.
What is coureurs de bois?
Name at least three French explorer who made an impact.
Who is Cartier, Champlain, Marquette, Joliet, or LaSalle
This crop helped the people in the Jamestown colony survive and make money.
What is tobacco
This is ONE of many reasons that Dutch colonists chose to settle in New Netherland.
What is because of political and religious persecution, to improve their economic standing, or to change occupations.
This explorer led an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the earth.
Who is Magellan
Europeans wanted to discover a shorter waterway through or around North America. What was the name of this waterway, and which explorer found one?
Neither explorer found the Northwest Passage to North America.
The French had this kind of relationship with the Native Americans.
What is good or prosperous
The Jamestown colony almost failed because it faced lots of challenges from this.
What is the environment
This country wanted to drive the Dutch out of North America.
What is England
These are TWO details you could add to a Broadside to encourage Europeans to come to the New World.
What are fur trading, free land to settle on, no political or religious persecution, or friendly natives.