The Colonies and Their Foundings

investors who provided ships, tools, food, water, and protection for the people who moved to America

• cash crops

• charters

• company

• plantation

a large farm

• cash crops

• charters

• company

• plantation

legal document given by the king of Englanda large farm

• cash crops

• charters

• company

• plantation

crops grown to be sold for financial gain

• cash crops

• charters

• company

• plantation

Select three reasons why English colonists started new lives in the Americas.

• motivated to make money

• gain a higher status in society

• practice their religion and avoid persecution

• to become president of a new country

______________ are men and women whose journey from England to the colonies was paid for by another person

• Indentured servants

• charters

• companies

• kings and queens

What did charters guarantee for colonists?

• no rights

• the same rights as citizens in England

Colonialists had to build their own homes.

• true

• false

All colonies were the exactly the same including their geography and characteristics.

• true

• false