Virginia Company
This company was started by investors to make money in the New World.
What is the Virginia Company?
This region had a short growing season of 3–5 months.
What is New England?
In early New England, settlers and American Indians sometimes had this type of relationship.
What is trade and cooperation?
The French and Dutch focused heavily on this economic activity.
What is fur trading?
England wanted resources and colonies like Spain had in New Spain. This is the cause — what is the effect?
What is England starting colonies in North America?
The Virginia Company made money by growing this profitable cash crop.
What is tobacco?
Because of rocky soil and short seasons, New England focused on this instead of cash crops.
What is fishing, shipbuilding, and trade?
Over time, relationships became strained because of this.
What is land disputes or expansion?
Unlike English settlers, the French often had this type of relationship with Native Americans.
What is more cooperative or trade-based?
Short growing seasons in New England caused colonists to do this.
What is fish, build ships, and trade?
The longer growing season in Virginia (7–9 months) helped the company do this.
What is grow more crops and make more money?
This document created a self-governing community in New England in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Why did conflicts increase between settlers and American Indians?
Settlers took more land and resources.
How did French and Dutch colonial communities differ from English ones?
They focused more on trade than farming and had fewer settlers.
Long growing seasons in the South led to this economic system.
What is plantation farming or cash crops?
Explain how the Virginia Company worked to make a profit.
nvestors gave money, settlers were sent to Virginia, crops were grown (like tobacco), and profits were returned to investors.
The signers of the Mayflower Compact agreed to form this type of government.
What is a self-government or civil body politic?
How did geography influence interactions between settlers and Native Americans?
They depended on land, rivers, farming, and trade routes.
Why did French colonies have fewer large towns compared to English colonies?
They were focused on trade networks, not permanent farming communities.
Explain the cause and effect of the Mayflower Compact being signed.
Cause: Need for order and government. Effect: Created self-government in New England.
Why did geography and climate make Virginia more successful than northern colonies for farming?
Longer growing season, warmer climate, fertile soil allowed cash crops like tobacco to grow.
Based on the Mayflower Compact, what type of community did the Pilgrims want to create?
A community based on laws, cooperation, religion, and majority rule.
Explain how relationships between American Indians and settlers changed over time and why.
Started with cooperation and trade, later became conflict because of land expansion and cultural differences.
Compare English colonies to French and Dutch colonies in terms of economy and settlement patterns.
English farmed and created large settlements; French/Dutch traded furs and had smaller, scattered communities.
Explain one major cause and effect of English colonization in North America.
Cause: England wanted resources and power. Effect: Colonies were created, leading to economic growth and conflict with Native Americans.