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The Virginia Company
Southern Colonies Section 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the Spanish find in the New World? | Gold & Silver |
| What did the French do in the New World? | Trade fur |
| Who claimed land in the New World for England? | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| What did Sir Walter Raleigh name his new land? | Virginia |
| How did the King of England get money to start a colony? | Rich men gave him the money |
| How did King James I pay back the men who loaned money? | Gave them a charter for a new company |
| What is a charter? | A document signed by the king giving land to colonists. |
| What did the colonists hope to find in the New World? | Silver & Gold |
| What happened to the first colony that settled in Roanoke Island in Virginia? | No one knows! They disappeared! It is still a mystery today! |