8th Grade History Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| First attempt by the English to colonize North America | Roanoke |
| Define Joint Stock Company | Investors bought stock or part ownership in the company in return for a share of its future profits |
| Why is John Rolfe considered the savior of Jamestown? | He encouraged them to plant tobacco. |
| Define Headright system | incentive - give land |
| What was the motivation for establishing Jamestown? | religion, look for gold |
| What is significant about the House of Burgesses? | They would make local laws. First representative government |
| In general, what difficulties did ALL of the early colonies face regardless of what region settled? | starvation, disease, Native Americans |
| Jamestown - purpose | The settlers were supposed to look for gold and attempt to establish trade in fish and furs. |
| Jamestown | The settlers built Jamestown on a penin- sula so they could defend it from attack. |
| Jamestown - problems | The swampy land swarmed with mosquitoes that carried dis- ease. Jamestown also lacked good farmland. |
| 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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