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Jamestown and Plymouth – Unit 3

  1. In 1606, King James I gave permission to the ______Company of London to establish a colony in North America.
  1. On May 14, 1607, the settlers began building the first English permanent settlement on the ______River in ______.
  1. Jamestown was named after the British King ______. Virginia was named after Queen ______. The virgin queen.
  1. Problems at Jamestown:

a)People were not educated on how to ______in Virginia.

b)People were unfamiliar with the Virginia ______.

c)Not enough ______.

d)Battles with ______.

e)Too much emphasis on finding ______and not enough working for ______and ______.

  1. The ______Native Americans were in control of almost all of eastern ______.
  1. Chief ______traded with European settlers, but also fought skirmishes against them.
  1. The Jamestown colonists experienced the “______” in the winter of 1609-1610.
  1. Only ______of 214 English colonists ______.
  1. Capt. John ______was the first real leader of the colony.
  1. Powhatan’s daughter, ______, helped to save Smith and the Jamestown colony.
  1. An injury from a gunpowder explosion made him return to ______. Pocahontas thought he had ______.
  1. John Rolfe, found a way to harvest ______.
  1. This quickly became the ______of Virginia and made Jamestown powerful.
  1. Rolfe also married ______, which brought peace between the colonists and the ______for eight years.
  1. The first legislature in the colonies was the ______of ______.
  1. This was the beginning of ______government in the Americas.
  1. Each town sent two ______or ______to the assembly.
  1. The next group of colonists from England traveled for ______reasons.
  1. King ______VIII breaks from Catholic Church and starts Anglican Church.
  1. Catholic Dissenters (disagreed with Anglicans and still followed Pope) were ______.
  1. Some Protestants (not the same as Anglican) wanted to change/reform the Anglicans views. They were known as ______. Others wanted to leave and set up their own churches (______).
  1. Separatists first went to the ______, but didn’t like their kids losing English “values”.
  1. They made a deal with the ______Company to settle and practice religion their way in North America.
  1. Separatists called themselves – ______.
  1. ______– theship that brought them in 1620. Only 35 of 102 people were Pilgrims – others were called “strangers”. Eventually all became called Pilgrims because in Plymouth the ______set the rules.
  1. They were headed for ______but they missed & landed in ______, and with winter approaching they decided to stay there.
  1. Their leader was William ______.
  1. Because they missed Virginia they were not governed by its ______.
  1. They governed themselves according to their own laws: the ______.