Scott Foresman Social Studies Grade 5 Chapter 5 – Flashcards
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Northwest Passage
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water route that explorers hoped would flow through North America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
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French
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People that found Quebec while searching for the Northwest Passage
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cause of Quebec's sucess
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Beaver fur trading
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Dutch
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People who took control of the Hudson River while searching for the Northwest Passage
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Why Pilgrims Left Their Homeland
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to practice their religious beliefs
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How the Pilgrims ended up in Plymouth
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a Storm blew the ship off the course
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Diffuculties with the Pilgrims
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diseases, the Winter season, and hunger
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The Wampanog Tribe
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helped the pilgrims survive
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The Puritans
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a small group of people who traveled to the colony to get it started for others, wanted to purify the Church of England, and establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Pilgrims
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people who travel to a new place for religious reasons
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Separists
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a group of people from England who wanted to separate themselves from others
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Persecution
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unjust treatment because of ones beleifs
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Mayflower Compact
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plan of government written by the pilgrims who sailed on the mayflower
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Dissenter
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person whose veiws differ from his or her leaders
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Proprietor
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owner
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Debtor
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person who owes money
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Southern Colonies
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had the largest growning season
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the New England Colonies
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had different religious beliefs
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Puritans of Massachusetts
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didn't follow the rules and were forced to leave their colonies
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The Middle and Southern Colonies
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started when King Charles the Second gave away plots of land
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Reason the English wanted colonies in North America
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They wanted to find gold and other valuable resources from the New World
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Roanoke Island
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the first English Colony
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Francis Drake
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Raided spanish ships
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Jamestown
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a place that had a self-government
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Jamestown settlers
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farmed land and dug holes to survive
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What led to the dissapperance of the colony at Roanoke Island?
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colonist may have been captured by Spanish soldiers, they may have died in battle with Native Americans, or they could have moved south with the Croatoans to ease their starvation, but no one knows for sure
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Why was Tobacco important to Jamestown?
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tobacco was easy to plant in the Virginia soil, and it was so useful that it became Virginia's and Jamestown's first cash crop
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What was the result of the Europeans search for the Northwest Passage?
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the French discovered and colonized Quebec and the Dutch discovered the Hudson River
