Name: ___________________________
Study Guide for Chapter 4: European Settlements
Please review key vocabulary words:
Lesson 1: claim (p.124)
armada (p.125)
invasion (p.125)
Lesson 2: charter (p.131) invest (p.131) stock (p.131) cash crop (p.132) indentured servant (p.132)
Lesson 3: pilgrim (p.136) compact (p.137)
cape (p.137)
Lesson 4: diversity (p.145) tolerance (p.145) missionary (p.146)
Questions to think about:
Lesson 1:
John Cabot, Giovanni da Berrazano, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and Henry Hudson
were all seeking to find what?
Why was it important for them to find it?
Did they find it?
What was the significance of their travels?
What was the Northwest Passage?
Why did Spain attack England?
What was the result of this attack?
Lesson 2:
What was Roanoke?
What was the importance of the Virginia Company of London?
Jamestown survived as the first settlement in the new land. What crop enabled them to succeed?
What led to the dispute between the settlers and the Powhatans?
Lesson 3:
Who were the Separatists?
What details do you know about the Pilgrims?
What was the Mayflower Compact?
Why was Squanto important to the survival of the Pilgrims?
What details do you know about the Puritans?
In the beginning, why were the Puritans more successful than the Pilgrims?
Lesson 4:
The first settlements in New Netherland were ________________________.
What kinds of settlers did the Dutch West India Company look for in order to establish the New
Netherland settlements?
New Amsterdam was the capital of the New Netherland settlements. Why did the New Amsterdam
settlers refuse to fight the English?
Following the loss to England, New Amsterdam was renamed to ______________________.
New France was claimed in present-day Canada. What was their chief resource?
What do you know about the fur trade?
How did the partnership between the French and Indian tribes (Huron and Algonquin) benefit each
other?