Early English Settlements

Multiple Choice

What purpose was the first English colony intended to serve in 1584?

• To establish a military outpost to support privateering in North America.

• To export timber from North America for shipbuilding in England.

• To discover gold in the Carolinas.

• To find a sea route to Asia through North America.

Multiple Choice

What happened to the group left behind by Sir Richard Grenville at Roanoke?

• They formed a successful settlement and continued to grow.

• They relocated to the mainland and dissapeared.

• They abandoned the colony and returned to England.

• They discovered a new passage to the Pacific Ocean.

Multiple Choice

Why was John White's return to Roanoke delayed for three years?

• He couldn’t find enough volunteers to rescue the settlers

• War broke out between Spain and England.

• He was bankrupt and could not afford to return imediately.

• The Virginia Company went bankrupt.

Multiple Choice

What did John White find when he returned to Roanoke in 1590?

• The colony was successful and thriving.

• The colonists had all perished from disease and starvation.

• The colony was abandoned, and the colonists had vanished.

• There was evidence of a battle with the Spanish.

Multiple Select

Why did White's expedition choose to settle on a peninsula forty miles inland? Choose TWO correct reasons.

• Their charter required them to settle inland, away from the coast.

• The Spanish had already claimed all of the land along the coast.

• They hoped the French would be willing to help them if they settled nearby.

• The peninsula offered some protection from Powhatan attacks.

Multiple Choice

Of the 500 settlers who landed on the peninsula, how many were alive by Spring?

• 165

• 365

• 65

• None

Multiple Choice

Why was tobacco farming in Virginia considered patriotic by the English?

• It allowed them to trade directly with Spain.

• It provided an alternative to Spanish tobacco.

• It was a product only grown by the English.

• It made the English empire very wealthy.

Multiple Choice

How did tobacco become significant to the Jamestown colony?

• It was used as a form of currency

• It became a major cash crop, making the colony profitable

• It was given as gifts to the Powhatan Confederacy

• It was used to build homes in the colony

Multiple Choice

What effect did the Headright System have on the Virginia colony?

• It reduced the population by encouraging emigration to England

• It increased the population by attracting English settlers

• It allowed the colony to create new industries other than tobacco farming.

• It ended the practice of indentured servitude