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Colonizing America

Colonizing America. Armada. a fleet of war ships. Roanoke Island. Sir Walter Raleigh’s attempted English settlement off of present day North Carolina Location of the first European baby born in the Americas named Virginia Dare

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Colonizing America

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  1. Colonizing America

  2. Armada • a fleet of war ships

  3. Roanoke Island • Sir Walter Raleigh’s attempted English settlement off of present day North Carolina • Location of the first European baby born in the Americas named Virginia Dare • Deserted with only clue to whereabouts of settlers being the word “Croatoan” carved into a gatepost • Now known as the “Lost Colony”

  4. Charter • a document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area.

  5. Virginia Company of London • A joint stock company in charge of establishing colonial settlements in North America

  6. Joint-Stock Company • a company in which investors buy stock in the company in return for a share of its future profits

  7. Jamestown • First permanent European settlement in the Americas • Named for King John I • Near mosquito infested swampland • Lack of good farmland

  8. John Smith • Experienced hunter and soldier • Got settlers to work • Set up trade with local tribe to get corn • Return to England began the “starving time”

  9. Chief Powhatan • Leader of the Powhatan tribe • Father of Pocahontas

  10. John Rolfe • Learned to grow tobacco using seeds from India • Jamestown colonists were able to make money for their investors from tobacco

  11. Pocahontas • Daughter of the Powhatan chief • Married John Rolfe • Moved back to England with her husband

  12. Headright • 50 acres of land given to new colonists

  13. Burgesses • elected representatives sent to an assembly

  14. House of Burgesses • A church in Jamestown where burgesses met to discuss local laws • the beginning of self government in America

  15. William Tucker • the first African American born in American colonies

  16. Persecute • to treat someone harshly because of their beliefs or practices

  17. Dissent • To disagree or oppose an opinion

  18. Puritans • People who wanted to reform the Anglican Church

  19. Separatists • People who wanted to break away from the Anglican Church and create their own church

  20. Pilgrims • Separatists who made the journey to North America for what they believed to be religious purposes on the Mayflower

  21. Mayflower Compact • A formal document that provided a plan for law and order to the Plymouth colony • Declared the Pilgrims loyalty to England

  22. Squanto and Samoset • Native Americans who became friends with the Pilgrims and taught them how to grow crops and also helped them set up a treaty with the Wampanoag • Samoset knew English from being kidnapped and brought to England when he was young

  23. John Winthrop • led a group of 900 who settled in a place by the Massachusetts Bay they called Boston

  24. Great Migration • During the 1630’s over 15,000 Puritans moved to Massachusetts to avoid religious persecution

  25. Toleration • acceptance of different beliefs

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