A Changing Continent

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  1. 3. American Indians became angered by the increasing number of new colonists settling on their lands. By 1675, these tensions resulted in a bloody conflict called King Philip’s _______. “King Philip” was the name English settlers gave to the Wampanoag leader, Metacomet.
  2. 5. As a result of Squanto’s help, the Pilgrim settlement thrived and _____.
  3. 6. When they finally caught sight of land, they realized that they had not landed in Virginia as they had planned. Instead, they were hundreds of miles ______, at Provincetown in northern Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  4. 7. When the Puritans arrived in 1630, they founded the Massachusetts Bay _______ and named their first settlement Boston. Unlike the Pilgrims, the Puritans had not separated from the Church of England.
  5. 9. In the early 1600s, a group of separatists decided to move to the Netherlands to escape persecution. This group later became known as the Pilgrims.
  6. 11. After the failure of the Roanoke colony, England did not attempt another colony until Queen Elizabeth’s successor, King ______ I, came to power
  7. 15. Because of persecution from the Anglican Church these groups left England in the 1600s
  8. 17. Spain, France, and England had different approaches to colonizing North America. Each nation’s monarchy hoped that the New World would bring wealth and greater global ______.
  9. 19. Eventually choosing ________ as the sight of their settlement, the Pilgrims arrived in late December, at the start of a brutal winter.
  10. 20. Jamestown nearly failed from the start because the location was poorly chosen, many of the colonists were not prepared for the _______ of starting a new colony, and the seven men on the leadership council wouldn’t get along with each other.
  11. 21. Led by William Bradford, the colonists drew up a new contract for their community. This document, called the Mayflower _______, provided the outline for a new government, and was one of the first steps toward self-government in colonial North America
  12. 22. In December of 1606, the Virginia Company sent 144 men and boys to establish the colony of ________ near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay in what is now the state of Virginia. This was England’s first permanent North American colony
  13. 24. After a smallpox outbreak weakened the Huron, the Iroquois blocked the Huron from accessing the rivers they used to trade with the French and other native peoples. As a result of the Iroquois’ blockade, the Huron nearly _______ to death
  14. 25. Captain John Smith told the colonists, “Those who don’t work, don’t _____.”
  15. 26. In 1534 King Henry VIII separated from the Catholic Church and made himself the head of the Church in England. This was the beginning of the _______ Church or the Church of England
  16. 28. Thousands of people died in King Philip’s War. Even Metacomet was killed. The war, which was won by the English, marked the end of any resistance to English ________ of New England.
  17. 30. France formed a permanent alliance with the _____ and Algonquin.
  18. 31. Eventually, the Pilgrims decided to leave the Netherlands and venture to the New ______.
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  1. 1. Spanish rulers offered large portions of land to those willing to move to New Spain. These areas called ________, included any American Indian villages on the land.
  2. 2. In addition to being in a salty swamp, the location of Jamestown was also in Powhatan _______.
  3. 4. In 1609, Huron and Algonquin leaders approached Samuel de Champlain asking to form a military ______ against the Iroquois.
  4. 8. New France and the nearby Huron and Algonquin groups traded with each other and maintained ______ relations.
  5. 10. Even though the Church of England was no longer Catholic they still had many attributes in common with the Catholic Church. This bothered a sub-group in the Anglican Church called _______. They thought the Church of England should be “purified” of everything that seemed Catholic. Another group called Separatists wanted to separate from the Anglican Church.
  6. 12. The poor conditions at Jamestown led to starvation and disease. After two-thirds of the colony died Captain John _____ took over as leader
  7. 13. Unfortunately, when Smith was injured in a _______ accident, he was forced to return to England.
  8. 14. Unfortunately, in spite of the Papal Encyclical Sublimis Deus forbidding the mistreatment and enslavement of the native peoples of the Americas, and in spite of The New Laws put forth by Emperor Charles V commanding that all Native Americans currently enslaved be freed immediately, the American Indians living on the encomiendas were frequently ______ and forced to work in harsh and dangerous working conditions. This led to the deaths of millions of American Indians
  9. 16. Half of the Pilgrims ______ that first winter due to starvation, disease, and the cold
  10. 17. French settlers began exporting beaver _____ across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe
  11. 18. Due to the fact that they had guns and gunpowder, Champlain’s men easily _______ the Iroquois.
  12. 23. In September of 1620, 102 men, women, and children set sail from Plymouth, England, on a ship named the _______.
  13. 24. The new colony seemed doomed. But in the spring, they befriended a Pawtuxet man named ______, who had been living with the Wampanoag people.
  14. 27. The King of France chose _________ de Champlain to lead New France. In 1604 Champlain sailed to New France as its first governor. Champlain believed that building friendly relationships with the American Indians in their area would lead to successful trade
  15. 28. Since about the 6th century England had been a ______ nation
  16. 29. In 1619 Chief _______ died, passing power to his brother, who was angry about the growth of Jamestown colony into native lands. Because of this, he waged war against the colony for the next several decades.