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REVIEW QUESTIONS

  • 1. Give an account of the starving time, and tell how the colony was
    rescued.

  • 2. Compare the administrations of Lord Delaware and Sir Thomas
    Dale, and give results accomplished by each.

  • 3. Give an account of Argall's administration.

  • 4. Relate the story of Pocahontas.

  • 5. What is known of the "Great Charter," and what good results
    followed from it?

  • 6. When was slavery introduced, and what were indented servants?


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  • 7. Describe the massacre of 1622, and give its effects on the people.

  • 8. What is said of tobacco?

  • 9. How and by whom was it introduced into England?

  • 10. What influence did its cultivation have on the prosperity of Virginia?

  • 11. How did Virginia become a royal colony?

  • 12. Why did the people refuse to allow Lord Baltimore to make a
    settlement in their midst?

  • 13. When did Virginia begin to show her opposition to British encroachment?

  • 14. What happened in the case of Sir John Harvey?

  • 15. Who was Sir William Berkeley, and when was he appointed
    governor?

  • 16. Describe the massacre of 1644.