Chapter 3 Social Studies - Early Colonies
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| First attempt by the English to colonize North America | Roanoke
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| Define Joint Stock Company | Investors bought stock or part ownership in the company in return for a share of its future profits
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| Why is John Rolfe considered the savior of Jamestown? | He encouraged them to plant tobacco.
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| Define Headright system | incentive - give land
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| What was the motivation for establishing Jamestown? | religion, look for gold
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| What is significant about the House of Burgesses? | They would make local laws. First representative government
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| In general, what difficulties did ALL of the early colonies face regardless of what region settled? | starvation, disease, Native Americans
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| Jamestown - purpose | The settlers were supposed to look for gold and attempt to establish trade in fish and furs.
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| Jamestown | The settlers built Jamestown on a penin- sula so they could defend it from attack.
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| Jamestown - problems | The swampy land swarmed with mosquitoes that carried dis- ease. Jamestown also lacked good farmland.
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| Jamestown - saved it | Jamestown - planted tobacco in 1619—twenty Africans who were sold to Virginia planters to labor in the tobacco fields.
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