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Ch.5 The Settlement of North AmericaAmerican Exploration
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History
5th Grade
10/29/2009

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An official document giving permission to do something, such as settle an area
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Charter
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A large fleet of ships, especially warships
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Armada
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Shares of ownership
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Stock
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A crop that is sold for profit
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cash crop
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A person who bounds himself to serve someone for a certain period of time (5-7 years) in exchange for something
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indentured servant
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The law making body of colonial Virginia, established in Jamestown in 1619
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House of Burgesses
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A water route believed to flow through North America that explores searched for from the 1500's to 1700's
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Northwest Passage
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The money remaining after the costs of a business have been paid
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Profit
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A land route between bodies of water
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Portage
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John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazano, and Henry Hudson all looked for ________
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The Northwest Passage
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Cabot's discovery of the Grand Banks was important because _____________
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The Grand Banks was rich in fish
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This French geographer/explorer founded a trading post called Quebec.
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Samuel de Champlain
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Champlain became friends with the __________
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Huron
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Champlain realized that _________ needed friendly Native Americans as trading partners.
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France
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The Huron asked Champlain for help against their rivals, the ______.
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Iroquois
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The Huron would help the French ________
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increase their fur trading business.
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The Huron remained friends with the French for many years. What is another word for friendly nations?
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Allies
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________ advised Queen Elizabeth of England to start a colony in North America
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Sir Walter Raliegh
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The colony of _______ was built on an island off the coast of North Carolina in 1585.
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Roanoke
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John White was delayed in his return to Roanoke with supplies because __________.
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war broke out between England and Spain.
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Although it was unsuccessful, this was the first English colony in North America.
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Roanoke
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In 1607 the Virginia Company sent a group of wealthy men and boys to Virginia to start a settlement which they named _________.
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Jamestown
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Captain John Smith kept the colonists alive by making a rule:________.
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"He that will not work shall not eat."
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An important cash crop in Jamestown was _______________.
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tobacco
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List three factors that helped the Virgina colony grow.
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1. Tobacco farms made settlers rich

 

2. Women were sent to the colony, making it a place for families

 

3. the House of Burgesses made laws for the colony

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an agreement the Pilgrims made before landing in New England to make and obey 'Just and equal laws'
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Mayflower Compact
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A Native American Chief in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Lakes regions
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Sachem
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Why did the Pilgrims leave England?
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They wanted to worship in peace.
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The Pilgrims set sail for the Virginia colony, but they landed in _____________.
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Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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List three ways that the Native Americans helped the Pilgrims survive.
Definition

1. how to planted corn

 

2. how to use fish as fertilizer

 

3. how to trap rabbits, deer, and other wild animals

Term
The only thing left of the colony of Roanoke when John White returned was the word ___________ carved in a tree.
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Croatoan
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A danger that the colonists faced in Jamestown was _______________.
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starvation
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_______ was sent to protect the colonists of Jamestown who preferred searching for gold instead of planting crops.
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John Smith
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