The Planting of English America Flashcards
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| 1179015966 | Powhatan | Indian leader who ruled tribes in the James River area of Virginia | 0 | |
| 1179015967 | Raleigh and Gilbert | Elizabethan courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies | 1 | |
| 1179015968 | Roanoke | The failed "lost colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh. | 2 | |
| 1179015969 | Smith and Rolfe | Leaders who rescued Jamestown colonists from the "starving time" | 3 | |
| 1179015970 | Virginia | ... | 4 | |
| 1179015971 | Maryland | Founded as a haven for Roman Catholics. | 5 | |
| 1179015972 | Lord De La Warr | Harsh military governor of Virginia who employed "Irish tactics" against the Indians | 6 | |
| 1179015973 | Jamaica and Barbados | British West Indian sugar colonies where large scale platations and slavery took place | 7 | |
| 1179015974 | Lord Baltimore | The Catholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow believers. | 8 | |
| 1179015975 | south carolina | Colony that turned to disease-resistant African-American slaves for labor in its extensive rice plantations. | 9 | |
| 1179015976 | north carolina | Colony that was called "a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit". | 10 | |
| 1179015977 | georgia | founded as a refuge for debtors by philanthropists | 11 | |
| 1179015978 | James Oglethorpe | Philanthropic soldier-statesman who founded the Georgia colony. | 12 | |
| 1179015979 | Elizabeth I | The unmarried ruler who led England to national glory. | 13 | |
| 1179015980 | Jamestown | Riverbank site where virginia Company settlers planted the first English colony. | 14 |