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Colonial America
WMS Cluster S
| Person, Place, or Term | Answer |
|---|---|
| King Henry VIII | English King who created the Anglican Church |
| Queen Elizabeth | English Queen that started English exploration of the new world |
| Sir Francis Drake | An English pirate that sailed around the world terrorizing Spanish ships and capturing Spanish gold |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Proprietor of the first English settlement in the New World |
| Joint-Stock Company | trading companies backed by investors |
| Investor | Someone who puts money into a project in order to earn more money |
| Shares of stock | equal parts of ownership in a company. (the person who owns the most stock controlls the company) |
| Charter | a paper giving certain rights to a person or group |
| Proprietors | nobles who used their own money to start colony |
| Indentured Servants | People who work for a family or company for seven years in order to pay for their trip to the new world |
| The Lost Colony | The first attempt at English colonization of the new world. They attempted to settle on the island of Roanoke. The colony mysteriously disappeared. No one knows what happened. |
| Virginia | The first colony in the new world. Named after Queen Elizabeth |
| Puritans | The first settlers of Massachusetts colony. Looking for religious freedom |
| Separatists | a group of people who broke away from both the Puritan and the Anglican religions |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in the new world |
| John Smith | Led the settlement of Jamestown |
| Pocahontas | Native American from the Powhatan tribe. John Smith thought she rescued him from death (This was most likely part of an adoption ceremony). Married John Rolfe |
| John Rolfe | Settler of Jamestown. First to introduce Tobacco as a cash crop |
| Plymouth | First permanent settlement in New England |
| William Bradford | First govenor of Plymouth |
| Wampanogs | The Native American tribe that lived in the area of the Plymouth |
| Mayflower Compact | The first laws of the Plymouth colony. The Mayflower Compact enabled the pilgrims to self-govern themselves. |
| Edward Winslow | A Pilgrim who's journal revealed to historians our only description of the havest celeration of 1621 (Our first "Thanksgiving") |
| Ann Hutchinson | A Puritan woman who was banished for Boston for wanting to interpret the Bible her own way. |
| House of Burgesses | The first government of the Virginia colony |
| Middle Passage | The name for the journey of slave ships from Africa to the new world. |
| 1607 | The year Jamestown was settled |
| 1619 | The first enslaved Africans came to the new world |
| 1620 | The pilgrims settled in new world |
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