"Roanoke and Jamestown"
This English settlement was founded along the James River in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
Some Jamestown settlers searched for this valuable metal instead of preparing food for winter.
What is gold?
This plant became Virginia’s main cash crop.
What is tobacco?
These workers agreed to serve for a set period in exchange for passage and basic needs.
Who are indentured servants?
New Amsterdam received this new name after England seized the colony in 1664.
What is New York?
John White returned to this island in 1590 and found its settlers missing.
What is Roanoke Island?
These insects spread disease around Jamestown.
What are mosquitoes?
Under this system paying for one person’s passage could earn a claim to 50 acres.
What is the Headright System?
Adult indentured servants usually agreed to work for this range of years.
What is four to seven years?
Samuel de Champlain founded this French settlement in 1608, one year after Jamestown.
What is Quebec?
This word carved into wood suggested the missing settlers might have moved nearby.
What is CROATOAN?
This leader organized work and traded for food before returning to England in 1609.
Who is John Smith?
Growing tobacco could threaten the food supply because it took land and workers away from growing these.
What are food crops, such as corn?
Captive Africans were brought to Point Comfort and sold in this year.
What is 1619?
This English explorer worked for the Dutch East India Company while seeking a route to Asia in 1609.
Who is Henry Hudson?
This Spanish fleet threatened England in 1588, delaying supplies for Roanoke.
What is the Spanish Armada?
Hunger and disease killed most Jamestown settlers during this winter crisis of 1609–1610.
What is the Starving Time?
English settlers sometimes thought these fields were abandoned, but Powhatan communities were leaving them unused for this reason.
What is allowing the soil to recover?
Unlike voluntary indentured servants, the Africans brought in 1619 had not freely signed these agreements.
What are work contracts?
La Salle gave the Mississippi River basin this name when he claimed it for France in 1682.
What is Louisiana?
This company received permission from King James I to establish a colony and hoped to earn profits for its investors.
What is the Virginia Company of London?
John Rolfe’s marriage to this girl in 1614 helped bring peace and end the First Anglo-Powhatan War.
Who is Pocahontas?
A planter paid for three workers’ passage. Name who could claim the headright land and how many acres that person could claim.
Who is the planter, with a claim to 150 acres?
Under Virginia’s 1662 law, a child with an enslaved mother and a free father received this legal status.
What is enslaved?
France announced a right to rule a huge region, but had relatively few settlers there. Explain why the size of its claim did not prove it controlled the region.
What is a claim that did not guarantee actual control over the land or its people?