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Social Studies

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One result of Henry Hudson's voyages to North America   Trade between Dutch and Native Americans  
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What is the name of the most powerful navy in the 1500s?   Spanish Armada  
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One example of colonial self-government.   House of Burgesses  
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Name of the Pilgrims' colony   Plymouth  
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What did merchants hope to gain from their investment?   profits (money)  
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He made the colonists in Jamestown "work to get food".   John Smith  
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The first Africans in Jamestown were not slaves but……..   indentured servants  
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Name of the water route to Asia around North America   Northwest Passage  
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Crops which are grown to sell and make money   Cash crop  
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To carry your boat across land from one body of water to another   portage  
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Cabot, Verrazano, and Hudson were all looking for this…   water route to Asia (NW Passage)  
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This helped Jamestown grow   families moved there  
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Why did Pilgrims leave England?   to worship their religion in peace  
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What did Wampanoag do for the Pilgrims?   helped them survive  
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What encouraged England to start colonies in N. America   Defeat of Spanish Armada  
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He was a soldier and close advisor to Queen Elizabeth and encourage colonies…   Sir Walter Raleigh  
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Colonists who signed the Mayflower Compact agree to do this…   make and obey fair laws  
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Governor/leader of Roanoke colony   John White  
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Explorer sent by Dutch East India Company to find NW Passage   Henry Hudson  
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Chief / leader of Native Americans around Chesapeake Bay.   Chief Powhatan  
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What killed many of the Jamestown Colonists?   Diseases from Mosquitoes  
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Besides disease, what danger faced colonists at Jamestown?   famine, starvation  
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fleet of ships   armada  
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Pilgrims wrote and signed this agreement to say they would obey the colony's "just and equal laws"   Mayflower Compact  
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They paid for Henry Hudson's expedition to find the Northwest Passage   Dutch East India Company  
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Pawtuxet who taught the Pilgrims how to grow crops and helped them survive   Squanto  
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Founded Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in North America   Samuel Champlain  
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Name of 1st successful English colony in North America   Jamestown  
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Whose idea was it to grow tobacco as a cash crop?   John Rolfe  
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Native American leader or holy man   sachem  
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