Question

Which statements accurately describe the English colonies in North America?

Choose ALL answers that are correct.

a. The first settlers at Jamestown made the colony successful because they were hardworking and anxious to build permanent homes.

b. The Pilgrims on the Mayflower Compact, an agreement stating that they would meet from time to time to make laws for their colony.

c. John Rolfie taught the Jamestown settlers how to plant and harvest tobacco, which saved the colony's economy.

d. Most workers on the early plantations came from the islands of the Caribbean m

Answer 1

To answer this question lets analyze each option carefully:

A) On May 6, 1607, from the three tiny ships that arriver at the new world carrying 105 men, only 38 survived the first nine months.

They weren't used to manual labor and suffered for disease, starvation, and death.

B) Given that the Pilgrim leaders were outside the jurisdiction of any government at that time and space, they decided to follow laws made by leaders of their own choosing.

C) The colony neede to find an economic resource to lay on, and what they found was Tobacco, an addictive habit in Europe. John Rolfe had the opportunity to have access to tobacco seeds and started to harvest. By the year 1616 Tobacco had become a profitable export.

D) The early plantations relied on Europeans indentured servants to their labor. They came from different countries in Europe such as England, Ireland or Germany and used to pay for its travel and settlement via pre-defined years of work.

Which gives us

Answer 2

The correct answers are C) John Rolfe taught the Jamestown settlers how to plant and harvest tobacco, which saved the colony's economy. D) Most workers on the early plantations came from the islands of the Caribbean.

Those were the statements that accurately described the English colonies in North America.

John Rolfe had brought some tobacco seeds from the Caribbean islands and seed them in Jamestown, Virginia. It became a total success to the degree that tobacco became the king of crops in Jamestown. This tobacco leaf was bitter and more grey than the tobacco produced in Europe. So tobacco that was growth in Jamestown was exported to Europe and represented a big business.

And yes, most black people used in the large plantations came from the Caribbean islands. They were Africans that had been sold as slaves.