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Who financed (paid for) the expedition and the settlement of Jamestown, VA?

• the king of England

• the Virginia Company of London

• the Chesapeake Bay Company

• the English Parliament

Their (Jamestown's) main governing document was called....

• the Mayflower Compact

• the Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• the English Bill of Rights

What was the purpose of having this document (the Charters of the Virginia Company of London)?

• It guaranteed equal treatment from the Native Americans

• It set up trade agreements with the French

• It guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to the colonists

• It established the first U.S. Bill of Rights

The Charters of the Virginia Company of London essentially stated that the colonists should have the same rights while living in the New World, as they had back in England.

• True

• False

Who drafted (wrote) the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Mason

• George Washington

• John Jay

The Virginia Declaration of Rights was the first document to advocate for (support) the rights of...

• other governments

• individual citizens

• wealthy landowners

The Virginia Declaration of Rights served as a model for...

• the English Bill of Rights

• the U.S. Bill of Rights

• the United Nations (UN) Declaration of Human Rights