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| England's first attempt at a colony in North America; its settlers mysteriously disappeared with CROATOAN its only clue |
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| explorer who started the colony at Roanoke Island |
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| leader of the second group of settlers of Roanoke who left and returned with supplies only to find everyone missing |
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| English sea captain who raided Spanish ships, causing tensions to grow between Spain and England |
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| first permanent English settlement in North America; named for King James I and settled to make money for owners in the Virginia Company |
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| leader of the Powhatan people who traded with the Jamestown settlers, helping to keep the settlers alive |
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| Chief Powhatan's daughter who married John Rolfe |
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| Jamestown settler who raised tobacco, making it Virginia's first cash crop |
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| people who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the ocean voyage to North America |
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| the first law-making assembly in an English colony; this helped establish the tradition of self-government in the English colonies |
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| French explorer looking for the Northwest Passage; he founded the French colony of Quebec |
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| a supposed waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
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| French colony started by Samuel de Champlain that became a major trade center for beaver fur |
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| French colonies in North America |
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| English sea captain sent by the Dutch to search for the Northwest Passage; he explored a river that was later named for him |
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| Dutch colonies in North America |
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| Dutch settlement on the Hudson River that became a major trade center; it later became New York City |
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| early English settlers who came to America for religious freedom; also called the Separatists |
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| group who wanted to separate from the Church of England; also called the Pilgrims |
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| unjust treatment because of their beliefs; this is the reason the Pilgrims left England |
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| leader of the Separatists/Pilgrims |
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| rocky harbor in New England where the Pilgrims landed; they were heading for Virginia but were blown off course |
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| written plan of government made by the Pilgrims for their new colony; this was an important step toward self-government in the English colonies |
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| native American who greeted the Pilgrims; this began a period of friedly relations between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people |
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| native American who helped the Pilgrims make a peace treaty with Massasoit and taught them to fish, hunt, and farm |
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| group who sailed from England to North America in search of religious freedom; they wanted to "purify" or reform the Church of England |
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| Puritan leader whose good planning helped the Puritans avoid the time of starvation faced by the Pilgrims |
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| the name of the Puritans' colony; it thrived on fishing, fur trading, and shipbuilding |
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| main settlement of the Massachusetts Bay colony; this remained the largest city in the English colonies for over 100 years |
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| English colonies with poor soil for farming, but thick forests for lumber and coastal waters rich in fish and whales |
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| English colonies better suited for farming than New England; called "the breadbasket of the colonies"; long wide rivers made transportation easier |
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| English colonies with the warmest climate and longest growing season; rich soil produced tobacco and rice; many rivers allowed farms to send crops to ports along the coast |
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| a dissenter forced to leave the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony; he founded Rhode Island, the first English colony in North America to offer complete religious freedom to its settlers |
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| dissenter who was forced to leave Massachusetts because of her beliefs |
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| a person whose views differ from those held by most people in the community |
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| Puritan minister who left Massachusetts to found the colony of Connecticut |
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| Quaker who started the colony of Pennsylvania with Philadelphia as its main settlement |
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| owner; Maryland was a colony where the land was controlled by an individual (a proprietary colony) |
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| English leader who started the colony of Georgia,persuading debtors to come settle in the colony |
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| chief of the Yamacraw tribe who gave land to Oglethorpe |
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