NAME: ______DATE: ______
European Settlements
Study Guide
COLONY / WHEN? / WHERE? / WHO? / WHY?Roanoke / 1585 / Coast of North Carolina / 100 English men / England’s rulers and merchants wanted a colony. Gold and silver.
Jamestown / 1607 / Virginia / 100 men and boys / Virginia Company wanted a settlement.
Plymouth / 1620 / Massachusetts / 100 men, women, and children / To practice religious beliefs. To move from the Dutch.
Massachusetts
Bay / 1630 / Massachusetts (Salem and Boston) / Large group. John Winthrop / Not separate from the church but to make themselves and the church pure.
1. Where did John White think the Roanoke settlers had gone? ______
_He thought they had gone to live with nearby American Indians.______
2. What did the Virginia Company sell to its investors? _____stock______
3. What cash crop brought money to Jamestown? ______tobacco______
4. Why did the English settlers and the Powhatans briefly make peace? ______
___John Rolfe, a settler, married Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman.______
5. How did the land in Jamestown affect the settlers? ___swampy land, undrinkable water, and disease-carrying insects____
6. Which colony was settled first, Jamestown or Roanoke? ___Roanoke______
7. What did the Pilgrims agree to in the Mayflower Compact? ____they agreed to make laws for the good of the colony and to obey them.______
8. What difficulties did the Pilgrims face after they landed at Plymouth? ______
__It was November and too late to plant crops so food ran out. It was cold.______
9. Why did the Pilgrims leave the Netherlands for North America? ______
____They wanted to live apart from people with other religious beliefs.______
10. How did Squanto help the Pilgrims after their first winter? ______
___He taught them how to plant crops such as maize, pumpkins, and beans.______
11. Did the Puritans want to separate from the Church of England? Why or why not?
____No, they did not. They wanted to remain part of the church and to make it pure.______
12. What helped make the Puritans more successful than the Jamestown colonists?
____The Puritans came better prepared (many skills); they arrived in time to plant crops.______
13. Why were the Puritans better prepared for settlement than the Pilgrims? ______
___Same as number 12._____
VOCABULARY:
__C_1. charter A. a strip of land that stretches into a body of water.
__F_2. invest B. a crop that people grow and sell to earn money.
__H_3. stock C. a document giving permission to a person or group to do
something.
__B_4. cash crop D. an agreement.
__E_5. indentured servant E. someone who agreed to work for a number of years in
exhange for the cost of a voyage to North America.
__G_6. pilgrim F. to put money into something to try to earn more money.
__D_7. compact G. a person who makes a long journey for religious reasons
__A_8. cape H. a share of ownership in a company.