| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Wilderness | A wild, empty land that has not been settled. |
| 1585 | What year did the English people decide to plant a colony in the wilderness? |
| 1497 | What year did John Cabot claim North America for England? |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Who was the powerful ruler of England in 1585? |
| Walter Raleigh | Who asked Queen Elizabeth for permission to begin a colony? |
| Roanoke | What was the name of the Island the two sea captains found which they believed would be good for starting a colony? |
| Virginia | What name was given to England's land in America? |
| Queen Elizabeth "the virgin queen" | Who was it named after? |
| They were to busy trying to get rich and ran out of food. | Why did the first colony fail and return to England? |
| Virginia Dare | What was the name of the first English child born in America? |
| Roanoke | What was Sir Walter Raleigh's colony in America called? |
| It failed | What happend to the first English colony in America? |
| The Lost Colony | What is Roanoke known as today? |
| Croatoan | What word did John White find carved into the tree when he returned from England after three years? |
| King James I | Who wanted to have a successful colony in the New World? |
| A charter | What do you call an "official permit to start settlements in America"? |
| The London Company | What group of businessmen and merchants obtained a charter to start settlements in America? |
| April 1607 | When did the ships "Susan Constant", "Godspeed", and "Discovery" sail through the Chesapeake Bay and into the "James River"? |
| King James | Who was the James river named in honor of? |
| Swamp | What do you call an "area where the ground is wet and spongy"? |
| Jamestown | What did the London Company settlers call their colony? |
| Half of Them | Before the summer was over how many Roanoke settlers died from sickness? |
| Captain John Smith | Who took control of Jamestown in 1608? |
| He that does not work shall not eat | What rule did John Smith make to try to save them from starvation? |
| Pocahontas | Who saved John Smith's life from the Indians? |
| John Smith | Who got burned and had to return to England? |
| The starving time | What was the winter of 1609-1610 called because it was so bad? |
| 60 | Out of 500 colonists left by John Smith how many survived the winter? |
| Jamestown | What was the name of the first successful English colony in America? |
| Tobacco | What became the most important money-making crop in Jamestown? |
| April 1607 | When was Jamestown founded? |
| Pilgrims | Who were able to govern themselves because they loved religious freedom and strove for the glory of God? |
| The Church of England | What was the name of the church that King James forced everyone to attend? |
| King James | What king made himself the head of the church? |
| Separatists | Who wanted to separate from the Church of England? |
| Holland | When King James put some separatists in jail because they worshiped according to the bible in secret, they gave up their homes in England and moved to_____________.? |
| Mayflower | In September 1620 a group of separatist boarded the ship called the ________________. |
| Separatists and Strangers | What two groups of people were together on the Mayflower? |
| Strangers | Who wanted a chance to work in the new world? |
| Pilgrims | The separatists and the strangers together became known as ________________. |
| Christopher Jones | Who was the Mayflower's captain? |
| Massachusetts | Storms had blown the Mayflower off course and brought it off the coast of________________. |
| The Mayflower Compact | The Pilgrims joined together to write the first written agreement for self-government in America called the __________________. |
| John Carver | Who did the Pilgrims choose to be their governor? |
| Self-government | The Pilgrims made their own plans for their own government. This is called _____________________. |
| Elder Brewster | Who was the Pilgrim's minister? |
| Saturday, November 21, 1620 | When was the Mayflower Compact signed? |
| Monday, November 23 | When did they go ashore to find a good place to settle? |
| 1. good supply of drinking water 2. a good harbor for ships to sail into. 3. a place free from unfriendly Indians. | What three things were the Pilgrims looking for in a place to settle in? |
| Captain Miles Standish | Who was the soldier the Pilgrims hired to guide them in dealing with Indians and in building a settlement? |
| Plymouth | What was the name of the place the Pilgrims found to settle? |
| Common House | What did the Pilgrims build to serve as their house, fort and church that first winter? |
| 50 percent | What percentage of the Pilgrims died that winter? |
| December 1620 | When was Plymouth founded? |
| Samoset | Who was the friendly Indian who came to visit them? |
| Squanto | What was the name of the Indian Samoset brought back who had been to England and spoke good English? |
| Chief Massasoit | What was the name of the chief that Samoset returned with? |
| Treaty | A written promise or agreement is called a ______________. |
| William Bradford | When Governor Carver died after the Mayflower had returned to England who was elected to take his place? |
| 36 years | How long was William Bradford governor? |
| Of Plymouth Plantation | Governor Bradford wrote a book which tells us most of what we know about the Pilgrims called ____________________. |
| Three Days | How long was the first Thanksgiving? |
| Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery | What ship (s) brought Englishmen to Virginia? |
| Mayflower | What ship (s) brought the Pilgrims to America? |
| Massasoit, Samoset, Squanto | Who were the three friendly Indians who helped the Plymouth settlers? |
| Pilgrims | Together, the Separatists and the Strangers were called _______________? |
| The London Company | What group of merchants or businessmen agreed to finance the founding of a colony in the New World? |
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