click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Social Studies chp 4
5th Grade Social Studies Chapter 4
Question | Answer | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
cash crop | a crop that people grow and sell to earn money | ||||
compact | an agreement | ||||
cape | a strip of land that sreches into a body of water | ||||
diversity | the variety of people in a group | ||||
tolerance | respecting beliefs that are different from ones own | ||||
indentured servant | someone who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for the cost of a voyage to North America | ||||
missionary | a person who teaches his of her religion to others who have different beliefs. | ||||
Roanoke | off the coast of present day North Carolina | John White was the leader of the colony | the colonist dissappeared when John White returned to the colony | ||
Jamestown | the first successful colony | the land was swampy and damp | John Smith said "who does not work, will not eat" | cash crop was tobacco | Pocahontas was married to John Rolfe in 1614 |
Plymouth Colony | The Virginia Company of London agreed to let the Pilgrims build a community in the colony of Virginia in 1620 | Came to America for religious freedom | arrived in America in November | the Mayflower Compact was an agreement to make and obey laws for the general good of the colony | |
Massachusetts Bay Colony | Puritans | wanted to make themselves pure or free from fault | bought a large group of people with a variety of skills | John Winthrop was the governor | |
New Netherlands | the first settlements were fur trading posts | Dutch, German, English, Swedish, French and African | 18 different languages were spoken | ||
New France | Missionaries taught Catholicism | furs were traded between the French and Huron/Algonquins | the cold climate made farming difficult | ||
Charter | a document giving permission to a person or a group to do something | ||||
invest | to put money into something to earn more money | ||||
stock | a piece of ownership ina company | ||||
Pilgrim | a person who makes a long journey for religous reasons |