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Charter

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Official document giving a person or group permission to do something.

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Cash Crop

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Crop grown to be sold for profit.

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House of Burgesses

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Law making assembly in colonial Virginia.

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Pilgrim

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Person who travels to a new place for religious reasons.

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Persecution

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Unjust treatment because of one’s beliefs.

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Puritan

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Group of people who wanted to “purify” the Church of England. They established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.

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Proprietor

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Owner

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Stock

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Share in a company.

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Indentured Servant

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Person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America.

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Northwest Passage

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Water route that explorers hoped would flow through North America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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Separatist

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Group of people from England who wanted to separate themselves from the Church of England. Some traveled to North America in search of religious freedom.

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Mayflower Compact

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Plan of government written by the pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower.

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Dissenter

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Person whose views differ from those of his or her leaders.

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Debtor

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Person who owes money.

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  1. English wanted ___________ in North America to find gold and other resources.
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Colonies

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  1. The Jamestown settlers avoided starvation by__________ and digging _________ for water.
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Farming

Wells

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  1. ___________was the first English colony.
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Roanoke Island

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  1. __________ and __________ are the colonies the French found as a result of searching for the Northwest Passage.
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Quebec

Montreal

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  1. Francis Drake raided __________ships which greatly angered the Spanish.
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Spanish

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  1. _________desribes the type of government established in Jamestown.
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Self Government

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  1. The __________ River is the river the Dutch took control of as a result of searching for the Northwest Passage.
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Hudson

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  1. ________had the longest season.
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Southern colonies.

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  1. Pilgrims chose to leave their homeland to practice their_________.
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Religious beliefs.

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  1. The Pilgrims went to ___________because a storm blew their ship off course.
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Plymouth

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  1. Each of the New England Colonies were different from one another because of their ____________.
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Religious beliefs.

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  1. Name three difficulties the Pilgrims faced at Plymouth.
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  1. Disease
  2. Hunger
  3. Winter
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  1. _________ of Puritan rules in Massachusetts were forced to leave their colony.
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Dissenters

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  1. The __________ helped the Pilgrims survive at Plymouth Colony.
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Wampanoag

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  1. Many of the Middle and Southern Colonies got started by_____________ giving away large plots of land.
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King Charles the Second

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Put the following events in order:
____John White returned to England for more supplies when the colony ran out
____White could not return for 3 years
____The colony at Roanoke Island was founded
____England and Spain went to war.
____When White returned he found out that all of the colonists had disappeared.

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__2__John White returned to England for more supplies when the colony ran out.
__4__White could not return for three years.
__1__The colony of Roanoke Island was founded.
__3__England and Spain went to war.
__5__When White returned, he found that all of the colonists had disappeared.

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  1. Why was tobacco important to Jamestown?
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Tobacco was important to Jamestown because it was a crop that was sold for a profit.

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  1. What was the result of the Europeans’ search for the Northwest Passage?
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The French and the Dutch instead discover rivers and founded successful colonies.

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  1. Why did the Pilgrims celebrate Thanksgiving, and why did they invite the Wampanoag?
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The Wampanoag showed the Pilgrims how to plant and where to hunt. After the successful harvest the pilgrims wanted to show their appreciation.

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  1. Name 4 ways the Puritans are similar to the Pilgrims.
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  1. Both were persecuted for religious reasons.
  2. Both want to change the Church of England.
  3. Both sailed to North America.
  4. Both started their own colonies.

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