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QUESTIONS
1. What brought on the crisis of colonization?
2. How was the London Company disappointed in its expectations?
3. What was the character of the statesmen who now obtained control
of the London Company?4. When was the Great Charter granted to Virginia?
5. What is known of its provisions?
6. When and where did the first House of Burgesses meet?
7. What good result followed the granting of the Great Charter?
8. Why did Sir Edwin Sandys and the men that acted with him
deserve special honor?9. Of what did the London Company become convinced?
10. In 1619, what was said of the English in Virginia?
11. What was done to help matters?
12. What good results to the colony followed?
13. What was an interesting feature of the early Virginia marriages?
14. When and how was negro slavery introduced into Virginia?
15. What were indented servants?
16. Were all such servants of humble origin?
17. After the marriage of Pocahontas, how had the whites learned to
look upon the Indians?18. Describe Opechancanough's plot to exterminate the English.
19. Give an account of the massacre of 1622.
20. What were its effects?
21. From this time on, what became of the Indian tribes?
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