Period 2 Part 5

Question 1

chesapeake

Answer 1

common term for the two colonies of Maryland and Virginia, both of which border on Chesapeake bay

Question 2

Jamestown 1607

Answer 2

the first permanent english settlement in North America. located in Virginia, the colony was founded by more than 100 colonists dispatched by the leadership needed to make the colony successful.

Question 3

john rolfe

Answer 3

British colonist in Virginia who developed a method of cultivating of curing tobacco

Question 4

indentured servitude

Answer 4

system of labor in which a company individual paid a person’s passage to america in return for a contract of repayment through servitude (usually 7 years)

Question 5

headright system

Answer 5

the grant of 50 acres of land for each settler brought to Virginia by colonists

Question 6

Georgia 1732

Answer 6

founded by James Ogletharpe as a haven for debtors, Georgia became the last of the original British colonies in North America