Blue Ridge 5Th Grade Social Studies Chapter 7

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An official document giving a person permission to do something, such as settle in an area.

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Charter

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Queen of England during the founding of the Roanoke colony and the defeat of the Spanish.

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Queen Elizabeth I

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English explorer historian and soldier who started two unsuccessful colonies at Roanoke Island.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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1500's leader of the English colony of Roanoke in 1587.

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John White

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King of Spain during the English defeat of Spain in 1588

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King Phillip II

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An island off the coast of North Carolina. The site of the lost colony found by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1587.

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Roanoke Island

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A statement that can be checked or approved.

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Fact

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A personal view or belief

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Opinion

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A water route believed to flow through North America to Asia.

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Northwest Passage

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A tidal river in eastern New York that empties into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Hudson River

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Shares of ownership in a company

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Stock

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A crop that is grown to be sold for profit.

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Cash crop

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A person who agreed to work for someone in colonial America for a fixed amount of time to pay for an ocean voyage.

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Indentured servant

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The law-making body of colonial Virginia

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House of Burgesses

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Chief of the Powhatan who helped the English settlement at Jamestown.

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Chief Powhatan

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A large fleet of ships, especially war ships.

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Armada

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The money remaining after the costs of a business have been paid.

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Profit

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English explorer who searched for the Northwest Passage through North America beginning in 1609.

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Henry Hudson

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Italian sea captain in the service of England who was first European to explore North America in search of the Northwest Passage.

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John Cabot

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Italian sea captain in the service of France who was in search of the Northwest passage in 1524.

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Giovanni da Verrazano

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French explorer who became the first European to navigate the St. Lawrence River in 1535.

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Jacques Cartier

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Explorer and founder of Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in North America, 1608. He is known as the "Father of New France."

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Samuel de Champlain

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English army captain whose strict discipline helped the Jamestown settlement to survive.

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John Smith

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Daughter of Chief Powhatan whose marriage to John Rolfe led to the "Peace of Pocahontas".

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Pocahontas

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Jamestown leader whose method of curing tobacco made it a successful cash crop.

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John Rolfe

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Powhatan Chief who led one of the last major Native American battles against the English in Virginia in 1622.

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Openchancanough

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A long arm of the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by Maryland and Virginia.

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Chesapeake Bay

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The name the Powhatan peoples of eastern Virginia had given to their homeland.

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Tsenacomacoh

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A town in southeastern Virginia which was the first permanent English settlement in North America.

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Jamestown

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An agreement the Pilgrims made before landing in New England to make and obey "just and equal laws".

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Mayflower Compact

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The leader or chief of any group of Native Americans in the Eastern Woodland and Great Lakes region.

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sachem

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Main Wampanoag sachem who made a peace agreement with the pilgrims at Plymouth.

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Massasoit

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Pawtuxet Native American who helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth to survive.

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Squanto

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Wamponoag sachem who was among those who first met the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620.

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Samoset

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Governor of the Plymouth Colony in 1621

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William Bradford

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English army captain at Plymouth who helped defend the Pilgrim colony.

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Miles Standish

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A peninsula in southeastern Massachusetts.

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Cape Cod

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Northeastern region of the United States, containing the states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

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New England

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A town in southeastern Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620

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Plymouth