Early Voyages and Settlements: Choose which settlement or voyage is described below
Choose the correct answer for each question.
 

1The success of this colony sparked a huge migration to the New World from England.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

2The leader of this colony returned to England for supplies and couldn't return to the New World immediately due to the Spanish Armada.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

3The first slaves brought to an English settlement from Africa were brought here.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

4 Wanchese and Manteo traveled to England with this voyage.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

5It's a mystery what happened to the settlers in this colony.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

6The Virginia Company founded this colony
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

7This was the first voyage that Sir Walter Raleigh sponsored
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

8This colony was organized in a military style and built Fort Raleigh
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

9Tobacco was first cultivated as a moneymaking crop by this settlement.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

10Members of this settlement came to America seeking freedom from religious persecution.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

11After this settlement, there was a continuous presence of Englishmen in the New World.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

12This colony was settled by gentlemen-adventurers, landless men and poor men who wanted to better themselves financially. In the original settlement of this colony there were no women.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

13This group ended up having poor relations with the Indians after men from this voyage killed an Indian chief.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

14This group started out by working the land communally, but when that failed, they changed to working the land individually and were successful thus leading some historians to say that this settlement established the first failure of communism.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

15This settlement established the first representative government in the English colonies.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

16This group signed an agreement among themselves that they would have a government based upon their church's teachings.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

17Unfortunately, this group settled their colony in the midst of a malarial swamp.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

18Based on excitement about this voyage, Queen Elizabeth allowed the new territory to be called Virginia in her honor.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

19As a result of this group's voyage England learned more about the New World from Thomas Harriot's scientific writings and John White's drawings.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

20The first child born in an English settlement in the New World was born in this settlement.
The Amadas-Barlowe voyage
The Grenville-Lane voyage and colony
The White voyage and colony
The Jamestown colony
The Plymouth colony

 

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