Question

In the space provided, write the word or phrase that best completes the sentence. 13 Points The defeat of the Spanish (1) _____________________ ended Spanish control of the seas and cleared the way for England and other European nations to start colonies in North America. In 1584, Queen Elizabeth gave (2) _________________________ the right to claim any land in North America not already owned by a Christian monarch. His scouts founded (3) ___________________________, off the coast of present-day North Carolina. However, both attempts to settle the land failed. In 1606, a group of merchants known as the (4) _______________________________ sent 144 settlers to build a new colony in America where they were to look for gold and establish trade in (5) ____________________________. These new colonists named their settlement (6) _____________________________. Because of disease and the fact that settlers searched for gold and silver when they should have been (7) _____________________________________, only thirty-eight of the settlers were alive a year later. The Virginia colonists never found gold or silver, but they did discover how to grow (8) _________________________ for profit. Their relations with neighboring Native Americans also improved when a colonist, John Rolfe, married (9) __________________________, the daughter of Chief Powhatan. As Jamestown grew, colonists rebelled against the rigid discipline of the Virginia Company. In 1619, a new governor, (10) ________________________________, ended military rule and allowed the colonists to elect representatives called (11) ________________________ to an assembly. The assembly had the right to make local laws. In 1619, a (12) _____________________________ ship brought the first Africans to Jamestown. The first African American child born in the colonies was (13) __________________________, a free man. After 1640, however, shiploads of Africans were being brought to North America to be sold as slaves.

Answer 1

Answer: The answers go from 1 to 13 in order

Armada, Sir Walter Raleigh, Roanoke Island, Virginia company, furs, Jamestown, growing food, tobacco, Pocahontas, Sir Yeardley, Burgesses, Dutch, William Tucker