Guided Reading Activity 3-1

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Guided Reading Activity 3-1

• Outline Section 3-1

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I. England in America

• Introduction
• 1. What were the two major reasons for the
  conflict between England and Spain?
• Trading rivalry and religious differences

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• 2. What marked the end of the Spanish control of
  the seas?
• Defeat of the Spanish Armada

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B.The Lost Colony of Roanoke

• Who did Queen Elizabeth give the right to claim
  any land in North America not already owned by a
  Christian monarch?
• Sir Walter Raleigh

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C. Roanoke Settlements

• Why did both attempts to settle Roanoke fail?
• A difficult winter and it took John White three
  years to return with supplies needed

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II. Jamestown Settlement
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A. Introduction

• What was a charter?
• The right to organize a settlement in an area

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B. The Virginia Company

• When did Virginia Company settlers found
  Jamestown and name the James River?
• April 1607

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• 2. Why was Jamestown built on a peninsula?
• So that it could be defended from attack

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• 3. Why did so many of the original Jamestown
  colonists die within the first year of its
  settlement?
• Many of them were not used to hard labor they
  searched for gold and silver instaed of growing
  food disease also took its toll.

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C. Captain John Smith

• How was John Smith helpful to Jamestown in the
  second year of its settlement?
• He forced the settlers to work and got corn from
  the Powhaten people.

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D. Tobacco Saves the Colony

• How did tobacco help the Virginia colonists
  survive?
• Tobacco provided money for the English investors

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• 2. When did relations between the settlers and
  the Powhaten people improve?
• After John Rolfe married Pocahontas, the daughter
  of Chief Powhaten

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E. Representative Government

• How did Sir George Yeardley help the Jamestown
  settlers?
• He ended military rule and allowed the men to
  elect representatives to make local laws.

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III. New Arrivals in Jamestown

• What happened to the first Africans brought to
  Jamestown in 1619?
• They were sold to Virginia planters to work in
  the tobacco fields.
• 2. Who was William Tucker?
• The first African American child born in the
  American colonies he was a free man