150 Study Guide Flashcards
Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?
Some of them came to escape from religious freedom or to get rich
Virginia Company
Was a going Stock company
Jamestown
English men settle in Jamestown to get rich by finding gold
John Smith
The was a Kidnap by the Native American but the chief daughter safe him
Pocahontas
She was the daughter of the chief of Powhatan
John Rolfe
He was the English man who married Pocahontas
Tobacco
The crop that saved Jamestown
Bacon’s Rebellion
It was a fight between Governor Berkeley and and Nathaniel Bacon /Bacons troops burned Jamestown
Plymouth Colony
It is from the pilgrims that sail for the new world in the mayflower
Pilgrims
were the separatists who came to the colonies for religious freedom
Mayflower
The ship were the pilgrims came to America
Mayflower Compact
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William Bradford
Governo of the Plymouth Colony
Squanto and Samoset
They were the Native Americans who helped the pilgrims
Puritans
People who came from New England to escape from political repression and religious restrictions