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| Question | Answer |
| Elizabeth I | queen of England that gave charter to Sir Walter Raleigh to settle in New England never married Virginia was named after her |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Financed Roanoke and sent people to settle there but never set foot on the land he chartered |
| Virginia Dare | John White's granddaughter, first English child born in Americas, named in honor of the colony |
| John White | leader of the second group that came to Roanoke |
| John Smith | significant leader of Jamestown, turned the colony around and got them back on their feet |
| Virginia Company of London | joint stock company is a business where investors pool their money in order to make a profit funded Jamestown |
| Pocahontas | may have saved John Smith's life twice essential to the peace between the two cultures was baptized/ renamed Lady Rebecca and brought to England where she later died |
| John Rolfe | introduced a sweeter variety of tobacco to Jamestown that would become the basis of their economy - cash crop married Pocahontas |
| Nathaniel Bacon | led the uprising against the government (Bacon's Rebellion) so that taxes paid for protection against Indian attacks after he died, the uprising fell apart |
| William Bradford | second governor of Plymouth that was elected over 30 times wrote OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION |
| Massasoit | leader of the Wampanoag (chief of the local Indian tribe) daughter was Pocahontas |
| Squanto | translator between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans taught the colonists how to plant corn, fish, survive |
| John Winthrop | Massachusetts governor that called Boston "city upon a hill" led Puritans to settle in Boston (Shawmut Peninsula) |
| Anne Bradstreet | first important poet in America |
| Anne Hutchinson | banished from MBC for expressing her religious views, later moved to Rhode Island, had followers Antinominions, later killed in Indian massacre in New York |
| Mary Dyer | friend of Anne Hutchinson's Quaker, martyr was hung in Boston Common after repeatedly returning to Boston |
| Roger Williams | founded Rhode Island Salem minister that said people shouldn't be forced to go to church, church and government should be separate, colonists shouldn't take the Indian's land by force |
| Quakers | religious society of friends pacifists, shouldn't take Native Americans' land by force, in Rhode Island |
| John Sassomon | praying Indian (Christian, baptized) whose death, which accused of and killed three of Philip's men, caused King Philip's War, the bloodiest war in colonial NE |
| King Philip/ Metacom | son of Massasoit, brother of Alexander wanted to stop colonists from expanding onto their land attempted to unite Indian tribes against the colonists |
| Rev. Samuel Parris | Reverend of Salem Village, where the witchcraft all began, his daughter and niece started having fits and were diagnosed as a result of witchcraft |
| Tituba | slave that suppposedly told the girls about witchcraft, fortune telling, and magic |
| colony | a settlement under the rule of another country (its mother country) |
| plantation | a large self sufficient farm on which cash crops are grown by slaves OR COLONY |
| indentured servant | a person who enters into a legal contract to work for someone typically 4-7 years in return for a free passage to America |
| slave | a person who is owned by another person and forced to work without pay |
| cash crop | crop planted to make money |
| rebellion | uprising intended to change or overthrow the government |
| martyr | person who dies for what they believe in |
| Touro Synagogue | oldest Jewish house of worship America in Newport, RI |
| St. Augustine, FL | oldest city in U.S. Spanish fort |
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