Question | Answer |
Roanoke Island | England's first attempt |
Virginia | where three English ships carrying 120 colonists reached in 1607 |
Jamestown | a peninsula in the Hudson River where they chose to unload their ships |
Queen Elizabeth I | ruled England from 1558 to 1603; wanted colonies in North America |
Walter Raleigh | close advisor to Queen Elizabeth I; offered to orgnize the first colony in North America |
John White | led men, women, and childrent to Roanoke Island to start a colony |
Francis Drake | Famous English captain; began a historic voyage around the world; his ship was captured by the Spanish; called the "Master Thief" by the Spanish |
John Smith | called Jamestown "a very fit place for erecting a great city"; but he was wrong because the land was low and swampy |
Chief Powhatan | leader of the Powhatan people; John Smith traded corn with him which helped keep the colonists alive |
Pocahontas | Chief Powatan's youngest daughter who visited Jamestown often; saved John Smith's life when she persuaded her father to let him go |
John Rolfe | raised a crop of tobacco in the rich soil of Virginia |
King James I | did not approve of tobacco and called smoking "hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs"; he was right about the harmful effects of smoking |
charter | a document that permitted colonists to settle on land claimed by their ruler |
stock | shares in a company; the way owners of the Virginia Company raised money by selling it |
cash crop | crop grown for profit; tobacco was Virginia's first |
indentured servant | a person who agrees to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the ocean voyage to North America; they hoped to buy land of their own when they gained their freedom |
House of Burgesses | the first law-making assembly in an English colony; members were chosed to represent each district; helped establish the tradition of self-government in the English colonies |
why did the English and Spanish want colonies in America | to find gold and other natural resources |
why was Walter Raleigh a good choice as the organizer of the first English colony in North America? | explored North America in the early 1580's |
how did a war between England and Spain affect the fate of the Roanoke Island settlement? | England needed all of its ships for the war, so John White could not return with a shipload of supplies until years later |
two items the Virginia company needed before it could build a settlement in Virginia | money to support the colony and a charter from King James I |
How John Smith helped the Jamestown colony survive | the colonists focused more on survival than on finding gold under this person's leadership |
this caused Jamestown and nearby farms to grow rapidly after 1612 | the cash crop tobacco began to be cultivated |
this motivated most indentured servants to leave their home country for Jamestown | the hope of being able to buy their own land when they gained their freedom |
something significant about the House of Burgesses | it was the first law making assembly in an English colony |
Quebec | a French colony founded by Samuel de Champlain located on the St. Lawrence River |
St. Lawrence River | where millions of beavers lived; beaver fur was used for profit in Europe; where Quebec was founded |
New France | name of the French colonies; French colonies in North America, including Montreal |
Hudson River | named after Henry Hudson; Hudson thought it would become the Northwest Passage, but it was too shallow for travel |
New Netherland | Dutch coloines in North America; another name for Holland |
New Amsterdam | Dutch built this town on Manhatten Island; from this spot the Dutch could control trade on the Hudson River; ideal location helped it become the biggest and most important Dutch settlement in North America |
Samuel de Champlain | French explorer; part of an expedition tht explored the St. Lawrence River; part of an epedition that explored the St. Lawrence River |
Henry Hudson | had a river named after him; English sea captain who went in search for new water routes to Asia |
John Cabot | sailed under the flag of England; reached the mainland of North America in 1497 |
Jacques Cartier | born in France; sailed under the flag of France and reached present day Canada in 1534 |
Giovanni de Verrazano | Born in Italy; sailed under the French flag of France; became the first European to reach the mouth of what became known as the Hudson River in 1525 |
Explorers of North America | Cabot, da Verrazano, Cartier, de Champlain, Hudson |
Northwest Passage | a waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
Reason explorers searched for the Northwest Passage | to make it easier for ships to sail from Europe to Asia |
Even though he failed to find the Northwest Passage, what did Champlain accomplish? | claimed land for the French |
Even though he failed to find the Northwest Passage, what did Hudson accomplish? | claimed land for the Dutch |
the Dutch settlers chose Manhatten Island as the site of New Amsterdam for this reason | to be able to control trade on the Hudson River |
the search for the Northwest Passage led to the founding of New France and New Netherland this way | explorers found places that were good for colonies because they had good transportation and abundant natural resources |
New England | named by John Smith; where the pilgrims landed which was much farther north than Cape Cod |
Plymouth | the rocky harbor; where the Pilgrims decided to find a place to settle |
Boston | a peninsula in Massachusetts Bay |
Masschusetts Bay Colony | name Puritans called their colony |
William Bradford | leader of a group of Separatists; this group wanted to separate from the Church of England |
Samoset | a Native American who walked into their settlemtn and called out "Welcome, Englishmen!"; learned English from fishermen and traders |
Squanto | Native American; captured by European traders and sold into slavery in Spain; later freed and went to England where he learned English |
failed to find the Northwest Passage | Cabot, da Verrazano, Cartier |
Native Americans who learned to speak English | Squanto and Samoset |
Massasoit | leader of Wamponoag people; Squanto helped the Pilgrims make a peace treaty with this leader |
Pilgrim | person who travels to a new place for religious reasons |
Seperatist | group of people from England who wanted to separate themselves from the Church of England; some traveled to North America in search of religious freedom |
persecution | unjust treatment because of one's beliefs |
Puritan | group of people who wanted to "purify" the Church of England; they established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 |
Mayflower Compact | plan of government written by the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower |
Main reason the Pilgrims came to New England | religious freedom |
What factor caused the Pilgrims to land at Cape Cod rather than in Virginia as planned | bad weather pushed them off course |
the Mayflower Compact was a step toward self government because | said that the Pilgrim's government would creat fair laws for the good of everyone at Plymouth; those who signed it agreed to obey those laws |
the way Native Americans helped the Pilgrims | showed them where to hunt and fish and how to grow corn |
the Puritans and Pilgrims left England because | faced persecution for their religious beliefs |
what does John Winthrop's statement mean when he compared the Puritan colony to a "City upon a hill" | Puritans should set an example for others to see and follow: Puritans should be as visible as a city on a hill |