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SS Chapt 5
5th grade The Struggle to Found Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Roanoke Island | Off the coast of North Carolina, site of England's first attempt at a permanent settlement in the Americas, known as the "Lost Colony." |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Queen of England during the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the founding of Roanoke, England's first colony in the Americas |
| Walter Raleigh | English explorer and soldier who explored North American in the 1580s and founded the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke in 1587 |
| John White | Leader of the English colony of Roanoke |
| Francis Drake | First English sea captain to sail around the world in 1577 |
| King James I | King of England who gave the Virginia Company of London a charter to set up a colony in Virginia |
| charter | Official document giving a person or group permission to do something |
| stock | share in a company |
| Jamestown | First permanent English colony in North America, located in Eastern Virginia |
| John Smith | Leader of the Jamestown colony |
| Chief Powhatan | leader of the Powhatan people and father of Pocahontas |
| Pocahontas | she helped establish a time of peace between the Powahatan and the English colonist in Jamestown |
| John Rolfe | Jamestown colony leader who showed that tobacco could be grown successfully in Virginia |
| cash crop | crop grown to be sold for a prophet |
| indentured servant | person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America |
| House of Burgesses | law-making assembly in colonial Virginia |
| Samuel De Champlain | French explorer who founded Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in North America. |
| Northwest Passage | Water route that explorers hoped would flow through North America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans |
| Quebec | Capital of the Canadian province of Quebec, the first French colony in the Americas |
| St Lawrence River | River in the Northeastern North America, forms part of the border between the United States and Canada |
| New France | name given to the French colonies in North America, including large parts of present-day Canada and the United States. |
| Henry Hudson | English sea captain who explored North America in search of a Northwest Passage in the early 1600s |
| Hudson River | River in eastern New York that flows into the Atlantic Ocean |
| New Netherland | Dutch colony in North America, included parts of present day New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut |
| New Amsterdam | Settlement founded by the Dutch on Manhattan Island |
| Pilgrims | journey taken for religious reasons |
| Separatists | 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 belief |
| William Bradford | Leader of the Pilgrims who came to North America on the Mayflower and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. |
| New England | Name given by John Smith to the northeastern region of North American |
| Plymouth | town in southeastern Massachusetts founded by the Pilgrims |
| Mayflower Compact | Plan of government written by the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower |
| Samoset | Wampanoag man who helped the Pilgrims |
| Squanto | Pawtuxet Native American who helped English settlers at Plymouth by teaching them key survival skills, such as how to grow corn. |
| Massasoit | Leader of the Wampanoag who signed a peace treaty with the Pilgrims at Plymouth |
| Puritans | Group of people who wanted to "purify" the Church of England. They established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. |
| John Winthrop | Puritan Leader and first governor of the MAssachusetts Bay Colony |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | Colony founded by the Puritans in New England |
| Boston | capital and largest city of Massachusetts |
| New England Colonies | Region of the 13 colonies that was located north of the middle colonies |
| Middle Colonies | region of the 13 colonies located between New England and southern colonies |
| Southern Colonies | Southern most region of the 13 colonies |
| Roger Williams | Puritan minister who founded Rhode Island as a place of religious freedom |
| dissenter | Person who views differ from those of his or her leaders |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan leader banished from Massachusetts for her religious views |
| Thomas Hooker | Puritan minister who founded the colony of Connecticut |
| William Penn | Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1681 |
| proprietors | owner |
| James Oglethorpe | English leader who founded the colony of Georgia as a place where debtors from England could begin new lives |
| debtors | person who owes money |
| Tomochichi | Yamacraw chief who agreed to give James Oglethorpe land to found the new colony of Georgia |
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