Chapter 4 Flashcards
Who was asked to set up a colony in North America
Sir Walter Raleigh
How many colonists were sent to Roanoke Island
113
Where is Roanoke Island
Off the coast of North Carolina
In 1588 the ______________________ , a fleet of 130, attacked England
Spanish Armada
The Roanoke colony is known as the lost colony why
Because they ran out of supplies and vanished by the time supplies came two years after they settled there
All that was left of the Roanoke colony was the word ___________
Croatoah
Croaoan
The Virginia Company was a __________________________________
Joint Stock Company
What is a joint stock company
A company that is a publicly owned company that is owned by several people
Shareholders are ________
People who own a part of company
Who did they send toJamestown to colonize
104 men and boys
What did the people of Jamestown looked for what instead of planting crops
Gold and silver
Half of the Jamestown people died of what diesease
Malaria
The rest of the Jamestown people were saved by who
Captain John Smith
John smith asked the ____________ people to trade for food
Powhatan
Who persuaded the chief Powhatan to spare John smiths life
The Chiefs daughter Pocahontas
Virginia’s main export is
Tobacco
Who taught the English to grow tobacco
John Rolfe
In 1634, __________ ______________, founded the Maryland Colony
Cecilius Calvert
The first settlement in Maryland was ____________
St.Mary’s
In _____ more colonists settled Carolina
1670
The town the people of Carolina settled in ______________
Charles Town
In Carolina they grew_______________
Rice and Indigo
Georgia was founded by _______ ____________
James Oglethorpe
Georgia was founded because _________
Oglethorpe wanted the poor to be able to start fresh
Georgia was founded in
1733
Georgia was also served to protect the colonies from the
Spanish
The __________ wanted to simplify the Catholic Church
Puritans
The ____________ wanted to break away from the English church
Separatists
In 1620 William Bradford sent separatists to America on the
Mayflower
Pilgrims
People who take a journey for a religious purpose
The men on the mayflower signed the _________
Mayflower Compact
The Separtists founded the town of ________
Plymouth
Plymouth was on the coast of _______________
Massachusetts
Squanto was a Pawtucket along with ___________ and squanto thought them to fish and the grow corn
Samoset
_______ _____________ was the colony of bostons leader
John Winthrop
Rhode Island was found by
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
Minister _________ found Hartford Conneticut
Hooker
Colonel Richard Nichols renamed new Netherlands to ___________
New York
Quaker
A person in the society of friends
Proprietor
Owner
The owner of east and west jersey were
Lord John Berekley and Sir George Carteret
Who persuaded the English to settle in North America
Richard Hakluyt
A geographer.
