chapter 3 Flashcards
Colonists provided ______________ to England and shipped finished goods to the colonies
raw materials
define joint stock company
people invested money to fund a venture
What became an important crop in the colonies?
tobacco
define indentured servant
people who travel and have fees paid in return for work
House of Burgesses
first representative government in the US
An area that the Spanish couldn’t attack was ________.
jamestown
lifespan were
short
define charter
written document to the rights in a colony
The colonists and ____________ were at war with each other.
Powhatan, a native American group
The ____________ were defeated by the colonists.
Powhatan
___________ rebellion was an attempt by many to take land from Powhatan.
Bacon’s
define dissenters
people who disagreed with the church
England granted ________ permission to set up a colony
Walter Raleigh
The colonists reached Roanoke Island (NC) in ____.
1587
English ships returned to Roanoke after three years with supplies but all of the people ______.
were gone
before an expedition was sent to find the Roanoke colonists, the ships had to ______________.
returned to england
Many _________ exist about the lost colonists of Roanoke.
theories
The ________ came to present day New York and called it New
Netherland
dutch
The king of England gave William Penn a charter to settle ____________.
Pennsylvania
doctrine
a principle or policy adopted by a group
Pennsylvania was a home to ____________ who believed in
non-violence
Quakers
The colonies had an abundance of raw materials to send to
___________.
england