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Come to America

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What is a charter   an official permit to start a settlement in the New World  
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What is a wilderness?   A wild empty land that has not been settled  
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What are merchants?   businessmen  
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What is a swamp?   an area of land where the ground is wet and soggy  
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What Indian tribe helped the Pilgrims survive?   Wampanoog  
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What was the name given to the Separatist and Strangers who traveled the New World?   Pilgrims  
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What are the people called who wanted adventures and a chance to work in the New World?   Strangers  
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What is a written promise or agreement between two or more countries?   Treaty  
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The London Company did what?   it was a group of merchants who paid part of the cost of sending colonists to Jamestown  
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Sir Walter Raleigh was given permission from whom to begin what?   Queen Elizabeth and begin Roanoke  
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Who was the Governor of Roanoke who returned to England for supplies?   John White  
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Who was the leader of the Wampanoog tribe to make peace with the pilgrims?   Chief Massosoit  
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Who was the soldier that guided the Pilgrms in dealing with the Indians in building a settlement?   Miles Standish  
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Who become the elected Governor of Plymouth after John Carver became ill and died?   William Bradford  
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Who was the Indian Princess who helped save the life of John Smith and married John Rolfe?   Pocahontas  
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Leader of Jamestown that said in order to eat you must work   John Smith  
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Indian friends to the Pilgrims that taught them many ways to survive   Squanto and Samoset  
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Who was the first successful tobacco farmer in Jamestown?   John Rolfe  
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Who was the FIRST governor of Plymouth?   John Carver  
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Who was the leader of the Indian Tribe that helped Jamestown survive?   Powhatan  
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What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?   It is a mystery, John White found word that Croatoan carved on a tree  
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What was the "cash-crop" of Jamestown?   Tobacco  
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What was the first settlement in North America?   Roanoke  
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What was the first PERMANENT settlement in the New World?   Jamestown  
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What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to the New World?   Mayflower  
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What were the two reasons that the Pilgrims came to the New World?   Religious Freedom and To have a say in how they were governed  
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What were the conditions on the Mayflower when they came to the New World?   HORRIBLE! Lack of food, very little space, seasickness  
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What is the Mayflower Compact?   the first written agreement for self-government in America  
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Leader of Roanoke?   John White  
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Leader of Jamestown?   John Smith  
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Leader of Plymouth?   John Carver  
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What is the name of the Pilgrim's colony?   Plymouth  
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What were the 4 reasons why King James I wanted to begin an English colony?   1. Find sea passages, 2.find gold, silver and valuable minerals, 3. Find people of the Lost Colony 4. Teach Indians Christianity  
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