How Did the Virginia Company Encourage Settlers to Move to the Colony

question 26

Multiple Choice

How did the Virginia Company encourage settlers to move to the colony?

• A)It arranged marriages with local groups of Indians.
• B)It promised settlers peaceful relations with neighboring Indians.
• C)It guaranteed settlers access to the colony's newly discovered gold mines.
• D)It granted fifty acres of land to anyone who brought in a new settler.

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A small lake, especially one within a cirque, a glacially scoured depression.

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