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Social Studies Ch 4
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who sent an armada to fight against England. The fleet sailed in 1588. | King Phillip of Spain |
| King James of England gave merchants a ? | Charter |
| What is a charter? | Document giving permission to a person or group to do something |
| What was the name of the new English settlement? | Jamestown |
| The Pilgrims wrote a ________________ before they started their settlement. | Compact |
| What was the name of the pilgrim's compact? | Mayflower Compact |
| What is tolerance? | people with different ideas and beliefs who live in a colony |
| Where was John Cabot from? | Italy |
| Who paid for John Cabot's exploration in 1497? | King of England |
| What did John Cabot find? | Canada - rich fishing off the coast |
| What was the sea route John Cabot was looking for? | Northeast Passage |
| What year did France send Giovanni da Verrazano? | 1524 |
| What did Giovanni da Verrazano? | east coast of North America - New York City |
| Who sailed up the Saint Lawerence river looking for water route to Asia? | Jacques Cartier |
| 1608, who founded a fur trading post on the St. Lawrence River? | Samuel de Champlain |
| What was the name of the fur trading post on the St. Lawrence River? | Quebec |
| What does Quebec mean? | Place where the river narrows |
| Who did the dutch hire in 1608 to search for Northeast passage? | Henry Hudson |
| What is something declared as one's own, especially a piece of land? | claim |
| What did the explorer's find in place of the Northeast passage? | more forest, fish and wildlife than they had seen in Europe |
| Who was part of the Counter Reformation? | King Phillip |
| What was the Counter Reformation? | reintroduce Catholicism into England |
| Why did King Phillip want the Counter reformation? | stop attacks on his ships |
| What is the Spanish word for a large fleet of ships? | armada |
| What year did the Spanish Armada sail to attack England? | 1588 |
| What is an attack by an armed force to conquer another country? | invasion |
| Who lead the English into the Spanish battle? | Francis Drake |
| Who won the Spanish invasion? | English |
| Describe King Phillip | deeply religious, wanted tom strengthen Catholic Church, worked in Madrid, loved books and paintings |
| When was Elizabeth Tudor Queen of England? | 1558 |
| Describe Elizabeth's reign? | smart - surrounded herself with smart and trustworthy advisors, supported expeditions to the new world, careful with money, strengthened the Navy |
| In 1585, an english colony was set up where? | Roanoke Island |
| Why did the Roanoke Island colony fail? | could not grow food because of sandy soil |
| Who was the leader in 1587 of the 2nd Roanoke colony? | John White |
| What was the message from the lost colony of Roanaoke? | Croatoan |
| In 1606, English merchants started the? | Virginia Company of London |
| To put money into something to to try to earn more money? | invest |
| How did people invest in the Virginia Company? | bought stock |
| What is a piece of ownership in a company? | stock |
| In 1607, what colony was established by the Virginia trading company? | Jamestown |
| Why did the Jamestown colony fail? | the colonist did not know how to work hard, did not know how to fram, searched for gold. Ran out of food and starved |
| Who took over Jamestown and ordered people to plant crops? | John Smith |
| What is a crop that people sell to earn money? | cash crop |
| What was Jamestown cash crop? | tobacco |
| When did the first Africans arrive in Jamestown? | 1619 |
| Who was someone who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange? | indentured servants |
| What was the name of the Indians that lived in Jamestown? | Powhatans |
| How was peace achieved between Jamestowmn and the powhatans tribe? | John Rolfe married Pocahontas |
| Why did the colonist in Jamestown fight the Powhatans? | wanted more food and land |
| People from England who decided to break away from the Church of England? | Separatists |
| Who is a person who makes a long journey for religious reasons? | pilgrims |
| Why did the pilgrims move from the Netherlands? | they children were learning dutch customs |
| What was the Mayflower Compact? | make laws for the general good of the colony |
| What is a strip of land that stretches into a body of water? | cape |
| Why did so many plymouth settlers die? | landed in November - too late to plant crops, ran out of food |
| What was the name of the Indian who helped the pilgrims? | Squanto |
| who was the governor of plymouth? | William Bradford |
| What did Squanto teach the pilgrims? | plant crops - corn, pumpkins, beans, hunting and fishing |
| In fall of 1621, they celebrated together for three days? | feast to thank God for their harvest first thanksgiving |
| Who bought Manhattan Island from the Manhates Indians in 1626? | Peter Minuit |
| What was the name of the first settlement on Manhattan island? | New Amsterdam |
| What is a variety of people in a group? | diversity |
| Who was the Governor of New Amsterdam in 1647? | Peter Stuyvessant - very mean not tolerant of different types of people |
| Peter Stuyvessant intolerance of people with different religions lead to what? | colonist allowed england to take over - became New york |
| What was the first name of Canada? | New france |
| What is a person who teaches his or her religion to others with different beliefs? | missionary |
| the french created a partnership with? | powerful Huron and Alogonquin - Iroquois tribe |
| Who claimed the Mississippi River and all the land around it for France? | Robert la Salle |
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