Individuals were offered 50 acre of land at jamestown for every settler they recruited to come to the colony

Tracts of land along the Hudson River given to wealthy investors who brought over 50 people to settle New Netherlands.

Italian hired by the English to find the Northwest Passage but discovered the Northeast part of the United States.

Englishman who persuaded Queen Elizabeth to colonize North America

Queen Elizabeth gave him a charter to settle North America in 10 years and he financed the failed Roanoke Colony.

What was the Middle Passage?

Hired by Sir William Raleigh to establish a settlement at Roanoke, but his leadership led to many problems.

Became the governor at Roanoke after Grenville left, but he spent more time looking for gold and silver than planting.

who was Virginia Dare?

what was a negative effect of the british enclosure movement?

passed by parliament in 1563 to deal with inflation, massive unemployment, and vagrancy in england

what is indentured servitude?

The diet of worms summoned which protestant reformer to trial?

French Theologian who believed in predestination, a presbyterian form of church government, and the father of calvinism

English morcha who started his own reformation in england, but it was not about religion

what did Queen Mary accomplish during her reign?

the english monarch's religious settlement displeased both roman catholics and calvinists

the colony of jamestown was named after this scottish and english monarch

a company made up of shareholders, who own multiple shares of stock, and they wanted to invest in the New World

leader of jamestown who rigidly kept the colony alive until a gunpowder blast sent him back to england

when fmaine broke out at jamestown and the colonists starved to death and reverted to cannibalism

he married pocahontas and later experimented with tobacco, which led to the survival of Jamestown colony

the first French Settlement in Quebec was called

the frenchman who was the first to sail down the entire Mississippi River

an english explorer who discovered present day New York City, the Hudson river, and Albany, New York for the Dutch

The Dutch established this colony in what is today New York