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Jude 5th - Chapter 5
Chapter 5: England Comes to America
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John Cabot | Englishman who had similar ideas to Columbus |
| King Henry 8th | English king who wanted to divorce his wife |
| Catherine of Aragon | King Henry 8th's wife |
| Church of England | church that King Henry 8th started on his own |
| El Draco | Sir Francis Drake's nickname |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | tried to settle Roanoke two times and failed |
| Virginia | lands in America named after the Virgin Queen of England |
| Virginia Dare | first English child born in America |
| Captain John Smith | captain who saves Jamestown |
| Jamestown | site where English colonists built their first fort |
| Powhatan | chief of the Algonquins |
| Pocahontas | Native American girl who saved John Smith |
| tobacco | John Rolfe brought this to America |
| Rebecca Rolfe | Pocahontas' new name |
| Mayflower Compact | list of laws the Pilgrims wrote out to govern their new colony |
| Plymouth | Pilgrim settlement |
| first Thanksgiving | feast shared by Pilgrims and Natives in Plymouth |
| Puritans | group of English Christians who formed colonies called Salem and Boston |
| Metacom | Indian chief who was mad at English colonists for how they negatively treated his people |
| Maryland | colony in America named after Mary the Mother of God |
| George and Cecil Calvert | wanted to establish a safe colony for Catholics in America |
| New Amsterdam | name of the Dutch settlement in America |
| New York | name that the English renamed New Amsterdam when they took it over |
| Quakers | religious group also called the Society of Friends |
| Pennsylvania | originally it was supposed to be called "Penn's Woods" |
| Philadelphia | city of brotherly love |