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European Settlements

Northwest Passage

Question: Why did explorers look for a Northwest Passage through North America?
Answer: They wanted a faster way to bring back riches from Asia.

Question: What was the first permanent French Settlement in North America?
Answer: A fur trading post called Quebec.

Question: Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River for the Dutch, and he explored the Hudson Bay in Canada for which country?
Answer: England

Question: Who was Francis Drake?
Answer: An English sea captain

Question: After the defeat of the Spanish Armada, who claimed more land in the Americas?
Answer: England had more land.

Jamestown and Roanoke

Question: Why did England want a settlement in North America?
Answer: They wanted to find gold and silver.

Question: What happened when the first settlers arrived in Jamestown?
Answer: They made friends with the Powhatan Indians.

Question: Who were the first to arrive in Jamestown in 1619?
Answer: Africans who were indentured servants

Question: What did the Powahatan Indians want from the colonists?
Answer: They hoped they would help them fight against other Indians.

Question: What happened when the Powahatan refused to give them food?
Answer: They attacked the Indians.

New England Settlements

Question: How did the Separatists get their name?
Answer: They wanted to separate from the Church of England.

Question: Why did the Pilgrims and Puritans settle in New England?
Answer: They wanted to build communities based on their own religions.

Question: Who were the Puritans?

Answer: Another religious group who disagreed with the Church of England.

Question: Which of the following are true about the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

A. Many Puritans died because they were unable to plant crops.

B. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was located in Canada.

C. By the 1640's thousands of Puritans settled here.

Answer: C. By the 1640's thousands of Puritans settled here.

Question: What was the Mayflower Compact?
Answer: The first written plan for government in North America.

Miscellaneous

Question: Who said, "He who does not work, will not eat."
Answer: John Smith

Question: Who said, "We sall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of the people are on us."
Answer: John Winthrop

Question: Why were the Puritans better prepared than the Pilgrims?
Answer: They had a large skilled group of people and allowed enough time to plant crops.

Question: What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?
Answer: To create a plan so the Pilgrims could govern themselves.

Question: Why did England's merchants and leaders want to start a colony in North America?
Answer: They hoped to find gold and silver.

Vocabulary

Question: What is a claim?
Answer: Something that is declared as one's own.

Question: What is an armada?
Answer: A large fleet of ships.

Question: What does invest mean?
Answer: To put money into something that will earn more money.

Question: What is an indentured servant?
Answer: Someone who has agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for the cost of a voyage to America.

Question: What is a compact?
Answer: An agreement.