Roanoke Jamestown Plymouth Vocabulary Pot Luck

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unsuccessful
Was Roanoke colony siccessful or unsuccessful?

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successful - in fact, it is the first successful permanent English colony
Was Jamestown Colony successful or unsuccessful?

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successful
Was Plymouth Colony successful or unsuccessful?

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What is cash crop?
This is a crop grown in large quantities for selling.

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What is Roanoke?
This was the only unsuccessful colony of the three.

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They wanted a better life.
Why did the Roanoke people want to establish their colony?

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They were looking for riches and gold.
Why did the colony of Jamestown want to settle?

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religious freedom
Why did the people of Plymouth want to settle?

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What is indigo?
This plant produced a blue dye.

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What is Jamestown?
John Smith, John Rolfe, and Pocahontas are all associated with this colony.

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1587; present day North Carolina
When and where was Roanoke settled?

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1607; present day Virginia
When and where was Jamestown settled?

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1620; present day Massachusetts
When and where was Plymouth settled?

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What is tobacco?
This plant could be sniffed, smoked, or chewed.

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What is Jamestown?
Which colony is the first successful, permanent settlement in America by England?

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CROATOAN
What was written on the gateposts?

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Godspeed, Susan Constant, Doscovery
Name 2 of the 3 ships that the English sailed over on

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The Mayflower
What's the name of the famous ship that brought the Plymouth colonies to America?

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What is diverse?
Different from each other.

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He taught them how to farm, was a translator between the English and the Native Americans.
Describe Squanto's role with the Plymouth Colony

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Starvation, storm wiped them out, another tribe attacked them, they tried to sail home and crashed, they moved to another island and joined a Native American tribe.
Describe 2 theories of what might have happened to the Roanoke Colony.

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Starvation (famine), drought, war
List 3 hardships of the Jamestown colony's first year.

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Starvation, not knowing how to grow crops, enemy tribal attacks, weather/timing of arrival
List three hardships of the Plymouth Colony.

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What is an assembly?
A group of government officials that make laws.

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It was the first big war between the Indians and colonists in MA (1675). It lasted a year and destroyed many people, and much land for both Indians and colonists.
Describe King Philip's War.

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