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Early English Settlements

A review of the information concerning Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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Why did Walter Raleigh bring settlers to the "new world"?to establish an English colony to keep the land for England
What was John Smith's work policy?If you don't work, you won't eat.
What is the "lost colony"?Roanoke
What was the first permanant English settlement in North America?Jamestown,
What was the first law-making assembly in the "new world"?House of Burgesses
What did the settlers at Jamestown grow to make money?tobacco
Why was Plymouth settled?, religious freedom for Pilgrims
Where did the Puritans settle?Massachusetts Bay Colony
Why was the Mayflower Compact important in the "new world"?This was another example of self-government.
What was the economy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?fishing, fur trading, shipbuilding
Where was the Roanoke colony located?in present-day North Carolina
Where is Jamestown located?Virginia
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony called today?Boston
Why did Massachusetts Bay Colony not experience starvation like the other colonies?They sent a small group in 1630 to get the colony started with buildings and farms.
How did the Plymouth colony survive?Squanto showed them where to hunt and fish and how to grow corn.
Who was elected leader of the Jamestown colony?John Smith
What happened to the first group of colonists at Roanoke?They returned to England starving.
Why is an English colony known as the "lost colony"?The settlers disappeared and were never found.
Why was the colony at Jamestown founded?trade and profit; find gold
Massachusetts Bay Colony was led by a lawyer named*****John Winthrop

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