Question

Some of the statements accurately describing the settlement of the English colonies in North America

Answer 1

• The Virginia Company was organized to colonize Virginia and find gold.

• John Rolfe helped the Jamestown colony survive by teaching the colonists how to grow tobacco.

Explanation:

• The settlers of the Virginia colony were convinced that there are gold deposits in the land chosen by them for settlement.

• To extract this gold, the settlers came together and began a company and named it after the name of the colony itself.

• When the Jamestown colony was on the verge of devastation, John Rolfe, one of the earliest settlers of the English colonies came for its rescue and taught the colonists to grow tobacco in order to fetch economic gains.