Jamestown and Roanoke

Why were the English settling the Americas?

• They were searching for riches and new and better lives

• They were running from the plague

• The English were at war with Krypton

• There was no more room in England

What did John White find when he returned to Roanoke?

• The people had disappeared and few items were left

• A thriving colony

• Pilgrims and Native Americans eating Thanksgiving dinner

• Spanish settlers

To this day what happened to the colonists that attempted to settle Roanoke the second time remains a mystery.

• True

• False

cash crop

• a form of currency

• a difficult crop to find buyers for

• a large farm crop, such as tobacco, produced mainly for money

• none of the above

indentured servant

• a dead body, usually a human being

• a person who is under contract to work for another person for a stated number of years; usually seven years.

• an enslaved person

• a person who has dentures

provisions

• a cure all; a remedy for all diseases or ills

• a government paper stating that colonists could take over a certain area of land in the New World

• loaded up with goods, as in cargo

• food and supplies

profit

• financial gain after expenses are subtracted out

• money owed to the government

• food and supplies

• net loss after expenses are subtracted out

charter

• a large farm crop, such as tobacco, produced mainly for money

• an arrest warrant

• a government paper stating that colonists could take Native Americans as slaves

• a government paper stating that colonists could take over a certain area of land in the New World

joint-stock company

• a form of business that sells tobacco

• a company that manages travel to the New World

• a form of business where the investors share the ownership

• a company that sells goods to settlers

a crop that people grow and sell to make money

• charter

• invest

• stock

• cash crop

• indentured servant