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Also known as Blackbeard, this person was North Carolina's most famous pirate
Who was Edward Teach (or Thatch)?
This was England's First permanent colony in the New World.
What was Jamestown?
This was a sailor who had a "legal" right to pirate.
What is privateer?
The success of Jamestown caused the foundation of this colony.
What is Virginia?
The death of Blackbeard is considered the beginning of the end of this.
What is the Golden Age of Piracy?
The first person to receive an English Patent.
Who was Sir Humphrey Gilbert?
This is called the lost colony. No one knows the the fate of the settlers who lived there.
What is Roanoke?
The right to colonize.
What is a Patent?
This colony grew out of the Albamarle region?
What is North Carolina?
What is the founding of Jamestown?
This person launched the Spanish Armada against England.
Who was King Phillip II of Spain?
This Colony, set up by military men, eventually failed due to lack of supplies and hostilities with the Natives.
What was the Ralph Lane Colony?
The fleet of Spanish ships, given the mission to destroy the English Navy.
What was the Spanish Armada?
After receiving a land grant from Charles II of England, the 8 Lords Proprietors were responsible for these colonies.
What are North and South Carolina?
A fittingly named dark time for Jamestown, because of the 80-90% of settlers that died from 1609-1610, many died of starvation.
What is the Starving Time?
Who was Ralph Lane?
The introduction of the cash crop Tobacco is the reason this modern state was the first established English colony.
What is Virginia?
Daily Double!
A citizen bound to serve for a set period of time (often 5-7 years)
What was an indentured servant?
The Climate in the colonies of this region favored industries such as fishing and ship building.
What are the New England Colonies?
This large Spanish fleet had the mission to destroy the English Navy. It did not work.
What was the Spanish Armada?
The first English citizen born in the New World.
Who was Virginia Dare?
The first permanent settlements in North Carolina, these places gave a free pass to criminals, pirates, and tax debt?
What are the Arbemarle settlements?
A person who has a legal right or Title to something.
(North Carolina had 8 of them.)
What is a proprietor?
As a result of their grain production,these colonies earned the nickname of the “breadbasket” colonies.
What are the middle Colonies?
Jamestown colony would most likely have failed if not for this.
What is the introduction of tobacco?