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13 Cards in this Set
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The defeat of the Spanish ____ ended Spain's control of the seas and cleared the way for England and other Eur. nations to start colonies in North America?
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Armada
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In 1584 Queen Elizabeth gave ___ the right to cloaim any land in N.Am. not already woned by a Christian monarch?
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sir Walter Raleigh's scouts founded ____ off the coast of present day North Carolina?
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Roanoke Island
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In 1606 a group of merchants known as the_____ sent 144 settler to build a new colony in America? A1
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Joint- Stock Company
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The 144 settlers were to look for gold and establish trade in?
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Fish and Furs
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These colonists named their new settlement _______?
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Jamestown
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Because of disease and the fact that settlers searchd for gold/silver when they should have been_________, only 38 of the settlers were alive a year later?? B2
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growing food
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Virginia colonists never found gold or silver, but they did discover how to grow___?
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tobacco
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Their relations with neighboring Native Americans also improved when a colonist, John Rolfe, married ___________?
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Pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan
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As Jamestown grew, colonists rebelled against the rigid discipline of the Virginia Company. In 1619 an new governor_____ended military rule. C1
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Sir George Yeardley
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This allowed the colonishts to elect representatives called ________ to an assembly? C2
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Burgesses
The assembly had the right to make local laws. C2 |
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In 1619 a _______ship brought the first Africans to Jamestown?
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Dutch
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The first African American child born in the colonies was_____ a free man?
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William Tucker
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