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- 2. These people called, _________________________, agree to work for a number of years in exchange for transportation, food, clothing and shelter to a new country.
- 3. The Jamestown colony produced tobacco, which became their most valuable __________________________ for selling and trading to the other colonies and Europe.
- 6. In 1607, England’s King James I granted a ___________________ to a group of merchants to establish a colony called Virginia in North America.
- 9. If the King of England controlled a colony it was called a _________________________.
- 10. The ______________________ came over on the Mayflower to seek religious freedom.
- 11. 1619 Virginia’s Law making body, the House of Burgesses, was the first ____________________________ in the Americas where people vote to elect people to make laws for them.
- 12. The New England colonies were governed by ________________________________ or an assembly of townspeople that decides local issues.
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- 1. Some colonies were NOT owned by the royal family, instead they were owned by people who were given grants of land called a ________________ .
- 4. A ____________ is someone who moves to a new place to permentanly live there.
- 5. A ____________________ was a large agricultural estate in the American South where crops were grown for profit using labor.
- 7. People who lives in or helps establish a colony are called ___________________________.
- 8. A ____________________ was a settlement or territory created and controlled by a country in a different part of the world.