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The Lost Colony is a colony that went missing and no one knows what happened and it seems like a mystery. So Walter Raleigh is a leader and she loved Queen Elizabeth and Walter Raleigh made a colony go looking for gold. Then Walter Raleigh made John White a leader and he had to go get supplies and he left and when he was there they were a war going with Spain. It took 2 years to get back but when he got there everyone was missing and when he looked at a tree he saw the words CORTON in the tree -
Jamestown was found in 1607 the founder was John Smith and John Smith was a great leader who forced people to help. He meet Pocahontas and then got captured by Powhatan and saved by Pocahontas. -
Indentured servants are people who sign a contract to become someone's servant but they are the only servant for a period of time. They usually do it to pay off a voyage to America sometimes the owners are okay but sometimes the places are really bad and they starve or by getting sick. -
Cash Crops are usually for farmers and it is cropped and then cashed and that is how to earn money the crops are usually rice, tobacco, and indigo. John Rolfe invented the cash crops. -
The House of Burgesses is the government and for rules to make and it was one of the most important buildings. -
Slaves used to be really popular and they had no choice they had to and if they died they take their family so it is endless. If they do something wrong they are usually punished. Their houses where they sleep are really bad their beds are made out of hay and some bugs are called chiggers. -
The Mayflower compact is titled agreement it was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. -
The first Thanksgiving took in 1621 the Plymouth colonist with the Indians Squanto taught them how to grow corn with fish. The Pilgrims invited them to a 3-day feast to show thanks for helping them. -
He gave William Penn land for then he could make his dreamland and thanks to him Pennslavian is a thing. He also the years of his reign are known in English history as the Restoration period. -
Willam got arrested because he was a Quaker then he thought that he wanted to make an own place where people can practice their religion. He made his dream come true and got land and called it to Sylvania and then he put Penn into that and now it is called Pennsylvania. Pennsylvanian was called the breadbasket because its product a lot of bread.