Completion

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