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Roanoke HudsonJames-town
Plymouth
Who is John John
WhiteWhite?
He was chosen as the governor of the
Roanoke IslandRoanoke Island when the English
attempted for a 2nd time to set up a colony there.
Who is Sir Walter Sir Walter Raleigh Raleigh &
what did he do?
He told Queen Elizabeth I to found the
1st English colony in 1585 in North America:
Roanoke (they weren’t successful!)
Who attacked England in 1588 when John White
went home? Why’d they attack?
Who won this battle?
The Spanish ArmadaSpanish Armada attacked. England & Spain were rivals b/c Spain wanted revenge
since the English took lots of land in the Americas that the Spanish had previously taken.
The English defeated the Spanish & they were
encouraged to keep setting up colonies in North America.
Why did the English come to Roanoke to
set up a colony?
English attempted to set up a colony in Roanoke in 1585 b/c they wanted wealth, power, &
gold.
The Spanish controlled lots of land in North America then, but now that English defeated the Spanish Armada, the English were no longer afraid of the
Spanish. They wanted to colonize land in North America.
Explain the mystery of Roanoke.
It was an island in Virginia settled by English colonists &
leader John White. When supplies ran low, he went
home to England for more. When he finally returned to Roanoke, the colonists were gone, leaving Croaton on a
tree. No one knows what happened to them.
What’s the Dutch East Dutch East
India CompanyIndia Company?
It’s a group that paid for Hudson’s
journey & exploration in
exchange for his profit
What happened as a result of
Hudson searching for
the NW Passage?
TradeTrade was established between Dutch & Native
Americans &
it made colonizationcolonization possible in North America by the
English, French, & Dutch (Netherlands)
Who is Henry HudsonHenry Hudson?
He was an English explorer looking for a Northwest Passage to
Asia to increase trade in 1609.
Who else, besides Hudson,
searched for a Northwest Passage?
Jacques Cartier & Samuel de Champlain,
both of France, searched
In the 1st few months at Jamestown in 1606, why’d so many English colonists
die?
Who helped save the
colony & how?
The colonists got diseases from mosquitoes & salty,
dangerous waters.
Leader John Smith helped save the colony by making the colonists work hard & not just search for gold.
Who were indentured indentured servantsservants?
The 1st African Americans to arrive in Jamestown, VA.
The Virginia Company paid for them to come to the Americas in 1619 & in return, the indentured servants had to pay off
their debts by working for 5-7 years.
Who was PowhatanPowhatan?
The leader of the Powhatan chiefdom on the Chesapeake Bay,
near Jamestown, where the English colonists also came to set up a
colony.
After John Rolfe helped improve the colony
with tobacco as a cash crop, what other 2 big
changes came to Jamestown?
Because the colony was improving, womenwomen
came over to Jamestown from
England & they formed a governmentgovernment, The
House of Burgesses, to make laws for the
colony
How’d Native Americans help
Jamestown colonists survive?
What problems
eventually occurred between both
groups?
They traded food, which helped colonists. Rolfe & Pocahontas
married, which brought peace for several years. However, peace didn’t
last. Colonists & Native Americans fought as tobacco planters took more
land. Colonists cared more about wealth, power & gold than good
relations w/ Native Americans. By 1622, the Native Americans attacked
the colonists again.
What was the Mayflower Mayflower
CompactCompact & why was it
imortant?
A government the Pilgrims made. It’s
purpose was to make & obey fair laws. It
started the idea of self-government in the
colonies.
Who were SquantoSquanto,
MassasoitMassasoit, & SamosetSamoset?
Native American Wampanoag sachems (leaders) who helped the Pilgrims survive
their 1st winter in North America.
Why & when did the Pilgrims leave
Europe?
Where did they want to settle & where did they actually settle?
They left in 1620 in search of religious religious
freedomfreedom.
They wanted to settle in Virginia but landed in Plymouth,
further north.
How did the Native Americans & Pilgrims come
to celebrate ThanksgivingThanksgiving?
By the fall of 1621, they had a
successful harvest & were doing well with their colony. It was a
celebration!
How’d Native Americans help the Pilgrims
survive?
What problems eventually occurred
between both groups?
Wampanoag (especially Squanto) showed colonists how to grow crops & trap animals.
The Pilgrims were very grateful at 1st. Later, Pilgrim colonists
took lots of more land & relations therefore got worse b/c
Native Americans feared the English would take over all land.
They became enemies.
