Chapter 2
“Planting of English America, 1500-1755”
Study Guide

1.  List the factors that led the English into their late start on colonization.
2.  Describe the development of the Jamestown colony from its disastrous beginnings to its later prosperity.
3.  Describe the roles of the Indians and African slaves in the early history of England’s southern colonies.
4.  Describe the similarities and differences among the southern colonies of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia. 

Identify:
Powhatan
Walter Raleigh
Humphrey Gilbert
Roanoke
John Smith
John Rolphe
Lord de la Warr
Jamaica
Barbados
Lord Baltimore
James Oglethorpe
Jamestown
Queen Elizabeth I

Identity:  joint-stock company, Anglo-Powhatan Wars, Barbados Slave Code, Royal charter, indentured servants, Act of Toleration, squatters, royal colony