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5th SS chap 5 vocab
struggle to found colonies
Question | Answer |
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Leader of the Jamestown colony | john smith |
share in a company | stock |
plan of government written by the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower | Mayflower Compact |
person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America | indentured servant |
where the pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower | Plymouth |
Jamestown colony leader who showed that tobacco could be grown successfully in Virginia | John Rolfe |
Law making assembly in colonial Virginia | House of Burgesses |
Puritan leader and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 | John Winthrop |
English sea captain who explored North American in search of the Northwest Passage in early 1600 | Henry Hudson |
Puritan minister who founded Rhode Island as a place of religious freedom in 1636 | Roger Williams |
group of people who wanted to "purify" the Church of England. They established the Massachusetts Bay Colony | Puritans |
a dividing line between the Piedmont and the Coastal Plains | Fall line |
part of the middle colonies; stretched across the Appalachians | New York & Pennsylvania |
Puritan leader banished from Massachusetts because of religious beliefs | Anne Hutchinson |
coastal regions of the middle colonies; found on the Atlantic Coastal Plains | New Jersey & Delaware |
Leader of the Jamestown colony | john smith |
share in a company | stock |
plan of government written by the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower | Mayflower Compact |
person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America | indentured servant |
where the Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower | Plymouth |
Jamestown colony leader who showed that tobacco could be grown successfully in Virginia | John Rolfe |
Law making assembly in colonial Virginia | House of Burgesses |
Puritan leader and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 | John Winthrop |
English sea captain who explored North American in search of the Northwest Passage in early 1600 | Henry Hudson |
Puritan minister who founded Rhode Island as a place of religious freedom in 1636 | Roger Williams |
group of people who wanted to "purify" the Church of England. They established the Massachusetts Bay Colony | Puritans |
a dividing line between the Piedmont and the Coastal Plains | Fall line |
part of the middle colonies; stretched across teh appalachians | New York & Pennsylvania |
Puritan leader banished from Massachusetts because of religious beliefs | Anne Hutchinson |
coastal regions of the middle colonies; found on the Atlantic Coastal Plains | New Jersey & Delaware |
Jamestown | first permanent English colony started in North America |
document that permitted colonists to settle on land claimed by a ruler | charter |
crop grown for profit | cash crop |
group who wanted to separate from the Church of England | Separatist |
leader of the Separatists | William Bradford |
a person whose views differ from those held by most people in a community | dissenter |
why the English founded a new colony in Roanoke Island | gold and other natural resources |
what is the first colony | Roanoke Island |
type of government set up in virginia colony | self-government; house of burgesses |
reasons for conflict between Spain and England | Francis Drake raided Spanish ships |
some of the problems the first Jamestown colonists encountered | starvation, disease |
how were the problems of Jamestown solved | traded for corn, fished in rivers |
what was the impact of the search for the Northwest Passage on the establishment of the French and Dutch settlements in North America | Founding of Quebec and Montreal; found new colonies, such as New France, New Netherlands |
what factors lead to the growth of Quebec | traded beaver fur |
River that Dutch took control of as a result of the searching for the Northwest Passage | Hudson |
what were the motivations of the Pilgrims coming to North America | to practice religious beliefs |
Why did the Pilgrims end up in Plymouth | ship blown off course by a storm |
difficulties encountered by Pilgrims on their journey and in establishing the Plymouth colony | winter, hunger, disease |
native american tribe that helped Pilgrims | Wampanoag |
how did the Wampanoag help the pilgrims | helped set up colony |
who sent a group ahead to get colony started for others | puritans |
translators for the Mansoit | Samoset and Sqanto |
who set up buildings and frams | Puritans |
who decided to have the first Thanksgiving | John Winthrop |
longest growing season | southern colonies |
difficult to farm because of rockiness | New England colonies |
used timber and waterways | New England colonies |
warmer climates, fertile soil, wheat, water transportation | Middle Colonies |
rich soil, tobacco, rice | southern colonies |
founded by Pilgrams, Puritans, and Quakers in search of religious freedom | southern colonies |
impact of religion on teh founding of the New England colonies | set it up due to need for religiuos freedom |
what happened to Puritans who did not follow the Puritan way of life | sent away or forced to leave the colony |
how did the Southern and Middle colonies get started | King Charles II gave away plots of land |
how did the New England colonies get started | need for religious beliefs |
events leading up to the disappearance of Roanoke | colony was founded, John White returned to England for more supplies, England and Spain went to war, white could not come back and the colonists disappeared |
important product to Jamestown | tobacco |
why was tobacco important to jamestown | profit |
how did the Dutch plan the growth of New Amsterdam | encouraged settlement |
reason pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving | successful harvest |
were invited to celebrate Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims | Wampanoag |
why were the wampanoag invited to Thanksgiving | show appreciation for all they had done |
what are some similarities of Puritans and Pilgrims | persecuted for religious reasons, wanted to change the Church of England; sailed north to start their own colony |
colonies found because of religiuos and political freedom | Rhode Island & Connecticut |
why was the location of Georgia important | located between two colonies that were rivals |
georgia | helped protect other English colonies from Spanish attacks |