Early English Exploration
This was the first attempted colony in the New World by the English, funded by Walter Raleigh, which strangely disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
This colony was the first permanent colony established in North America, which saw famous figures such as John Smith, Pocahantes, and Nathaniel Bacon.
What is Jamestown?
This plant, introduced by John Rolfe in 1612, allowed the Jamestown colony to flourish, and called for more and more labor in the colony.
What is Tobacco?
This year saw the establishment of the House of Burgesses, the first slave in Jamestown, and the transportation of 90 women to Jamestown.
What is 1619.
List 3 reasons for English Exploration.
What is Gold, water route to Asia, stop Spanish expansion, religion, land, raw materials?
This colony was established in 1632 as a haven for persecuted Catholics, and saw an important Act passed which would influence later American politics.
What is Maryland?
This rebellion in 1676 saw indentured servants rise up against their landowners, resulted in the slow phasing out of Indentured Servitude for chattel slavery.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This year saw the establishment of Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is 1607?
This was the form of legal piracy which was sanctioned by a government official.
What is Privateering?
This colony, established in the 1670s, got rich on rice and indigo.
What is South Carolina?
This trade system saw slaves, raw materials, and manufactured goods passed between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This year saw a massive attack on Jamestown, which resulted in the eventual destruction of the Native Tribe around Jamestown.
What is 1622?
This English explorer was the first to circumnavigate the world, during which he legally raided Spanish ships coming from the New World.
Who is Francis Drake?
This colony, established in 1732, was the last colony in North America, was settled by debtors from England and acted as a buffer to Spain.
What is Georgia?
This was the first limited democratic legislature establish in the New World, in Jamestown in 1619.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This year saw the attempted establishment of the Roanoke colony, which failed after the entire colony disaperred.
What is 1587?
This mass of Spanish ships, which were sent to overthrow the Queen of England, was defeated by the English Navy in the Channel.
What is the Spanish Armada?
This colony, established in the 1670s, was less prosperous than its sister colony, mostly because it was settled by poor, former indentured servants.
What is North Carolina?
This economic system allowed investors to fund an expedition to the new world, a change from the traditional way of one rich noble funding an expedition.
What is a Joint Stock Company?
This year saw the attack and eventual defeat of the Spanish Armada against the British.
What is 1588?