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famous cherokee indian |
sequoya |
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created the only known indian alphabet of his time |
sequoya |
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the Cherokee alphabet |
syllabary |
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native american from oklahoma, was the greatest athlete that ever lived |
jim thorpe |
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greatest athlete of the century |
jim thorpe |
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a wild, empty land that has not been settled |
wilderness |
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was the powerful ruler of England in 1585 |
Queen elizabeth I |
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asked for permission to begin a colony |
walter raleigh |
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When Raleigh's 2 sea captains returned, they reported finding an island called _ |
roanoke |
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part of the new world belonging to england |
virginia |
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first english child born in america |
virginia dare |
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in 1588 England won the war with Spain in what is called the |
defeat of the spanish armada |
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When John White returned to Roanoke, he found carved on a tree the word |
croatoan |
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what happened to the first english colony in america? |
it failed |
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roanoke is known as |
the lost colony |
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wanted to have a successful english colony in the new world |
king james I |
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king james hopes to do 4 things: |
1. find a sea passage through America to the riches of the Indies 2. find gold, silver, and valuable minerals 3. find the people of the lost colony of roanoke 4. teach the indians christianity |
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businessmen |
merchants |
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the group of merchants were called the |
london company |
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an official permit to start settlements in america |
charter |
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Name the three small wooden ships |
Susan Constant Godspeed Discovery |
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Where did the 3 small wooden ships sail to? |
Chesapeake Bay, then into a river |
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What did the 3 small ships name the river they went into after the Chesapeake Bay? |
James River in honor of their king |
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first permanent english colony in america |
jamestown |
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who took control of jamestown |
captain john smith |
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Captain John Smith made a new rule. What was it? |
He that does not work, shall not eat |
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indian princess who was a great help to the jamestown settlers |
pocahontas |
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who saved john smith's life when her father threatened to kill him |
pocahontas |
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what was the winter of 1609-1610 called |
the starving time |
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how did jamestown become the first permanent english colony in america |
slowly and painfully |
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what was the most important money making crop |
tobacco |
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why were the pilgrims able to govern themselves |
because they loved religious freedom and strove for the glory of god |
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what was the king's church called |
the church of england |
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who gave up heir homes in england and moved to holland |
separatist |
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In September 1620, a group of separatist boarded a little ship known as the |
mayflower |
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who were people who wanted a chance to work in the new world, and others went for adventure |
strangers |
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the separatist and the strangers together became known as |
pilgrims |
