The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most consequential for the future United States was the

The English treatment of the Irish, under the reign of Elizabeth I, can best be described as

"sea dog" who plundered the treasure ships of the Spanish Main

courtier whose colony at Roanoke Island was mysteriously abandoned in the 1580s

Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the

The first English attempt at colonization in 1585 was in

England's defeat of the Spanish Armada

The ____ decreed that only eldest sons were eligible to inherit landed estates.

The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by

All of the following provided motives for English colonization except

The Virginia Charter guaranteed that English settlers in the New World would

The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by

Despite an abundance of fish and game, early Jamestown settlers continued to starve because

Captain John Smith's role at Jamestown can best be described as

Of the four hundred settlers who managed to make it to Virginia, only sixty survived the "starving time" winter of

When Lord De La Warr took control of Jamestown in 1610, he

A peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War in 1614 by the

The result of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War in 1644 can best be described as

The biggest disrupter of Native American life was

The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all of the following except

By the end of the 1600s, blacks in Virginia constituted 14 percent of the colony's population and were mostly

The summoning of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it

A major reason for the founding of the Maryland colony in 1634 was to

In 1649, Maryland's Act of Toleration

The statutes governing slavery in the North American colonies originated in

Arrange the following events in chronological order: the founding of (A) Georgia, (B) the Carolinas, (C) Virginia, and (D) Maryland.