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Chapter 5 LESSONS 1 & 2
The Search for the Northwest Passage/Roanoke and Jamestown
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Social Studies
5th Grade
09/16/2014

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________ is the 1st English colony in North America, off the coast of North Carolina.

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Roanoke

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_______ was Queen Elizabeth's advisor who told her to begin a colony in North America

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Sirt Walter Raleigh

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_______ is a legal document allowing colonists to settle land claimed by their ruler.

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charter

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______ was the leader of Roanoke.

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John White

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A large fleet of ships is called an _______.

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armada

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______ was carved on a tree in Roanoke, where the colonists had vanished.

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CROATOAN

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Shares of a business is called ______.

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stock



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The _____ is a body of water in eastern Virginia that is the homeland of the Native Americans and is called Tsenacomacoh.

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Chesapeake Bay

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A respected Native American leader was ______.

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Chief Powhatan

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Jamestown was named after this King of England, _______ as well as the James River.

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King James I

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__________ was the name of the settlement on a swampy peninsula on the Chesapeake Bay.

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Jamestown

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_______ was the man who protected the settlers of Jamestown and was the reason they survived.

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Captain John Smith

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_______ was the man who harvested the first tobacco crop.

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John Rolfe

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A crop that is sold for money such as tobacco is called a ________.

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cash crop

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People who worked for 5-7 years to earn land and freedom were

_____________.

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Indentured Servants

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The __________ made the laws for the colony of Jamestown.

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House of Burgesses

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_______ was the daughter of Powhatan who was married to John Rolfe and changed her name to Rebecca.

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Pocohontas

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