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| Roanoke Island | England's first attempt at colonizing in North America was here. |
| Queen Elizabeth I | The ruler of England during their first attempt at colonizing in North America. |
| Gold | England hoped to find this mineral as well as other natural resources in North America. |
| North Carolina | Roanoke Island is located off the shore of this present- day state. |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | The man who offered to start the colony at Roanoke Island. |
| failure | The first attempt at colonizing Roanoke Island was a _______ and the survivors had to be saved. |
| John White | England's second attempt to colonize Roanoke island had him as its leader. |
| disappeared | Upon John White's return to Roanoke after a lengthy absence, he found that everyone had ___________. |
| "Croatoan" | All that remained of the Roanoke Colony was this word carved into a tree. |
| raiding | English sea captains began _________ Spanish ships carrying gold and silver from the Americas back to Spain. |
| Sir Francis Drake | The most famous of the English sea captains. |
| sail around the world | Drake became only the second man in history to accomplish this fete. |
| Spanish Armada | The name given to the huge fleet of ships that King Phillip II assembled to attack England. |
| defeat | England was able to __________ Spain because of its smaller, faster ships and more powerful guns. |
| colonizing | After England defeated the Armada, they turned their attention back to ____________ North America. |
| Virginia Company | The enterprise started by a number of London merchants for the purpose of starting a colony in North America. |
| King James I | The ruler of England at the time the Virginia Company was formed. |
| Charter | A document that permitted colonists to settle on land claimed by their ruler. |
| Stock | Shares of ownership in a company. |
| Jamestown | The name that the Virginia Company colonists gave to their new colony when they arrived in Virginia in 1607. |
| starvation, disease | Many Jamestown settlers died from _________ and __________ because they were more interested in finding gold than building houses and planting crops. |
| John Smith | He was able to save the Jamestown Colony by forcing the men to work. |
| work, eat | Smith told the men that if they didn't ________, they wouldn't ________. |
| Powhatan | The chief of the Native Americans that inhabited the area where the Jamestown Colony was located. |
| Pocahontas | The young Native American princess who helped keep peace between the Native Americans and Jamestown settlers. |
| cash crop | A crop grown and sold for a profit. |
| tobacco | The main cash crop of Jamestown. |
| John Rolfe | The settler who introduced tobacco to Jamestown and later married Pocahontas. |
| indentured servant | Someone who agrees to work for someone for a certain period of time in exchange for the ocean voyage to North America. |
| Africans | In 1619 a Dutch ship arrived in Jamestown with twenty __________ on board. At first they were treated as indentured servants. |
| House of Burgesses | The self-governing assembly in Jamestown. |
