This English leader Established a commonwealth in England. A.
James I

B.
Oliver Cromwell

C.
Elizabeth I

D.
William and Mary

1.In the 1570s and 1580s, Queen Elizabeth I granted royal permission to two Englishmen to colonise America.

2.Many were reduced to begging or to stealing to survive. Migrating to a new world seemed a hopeful choice for many of these people, as it did for English leaders who saw colonies as a way to solve the problem of the growing numbers of displaced and poor people.

3.The New England colonies (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire), as well as the colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania, were founded primarily for religious beliefs, while the other colonies were founded for business and economic expansion.

4.Indentured servants were contracted to work for a set length of time, an advantage they had over slaves, who would remain in their condition until they died or their owners decided to set them free.

5.The first European settlement in what is today North Carolina—indeed, the first English settlement in the New World—was the "lost colony of Roanoke," founded by the English explorer and poet Walter Raleigh in 1587.

6.The province of Carolina given by England's King Charles II to the Lords Proprietors in 1663 and 1665 constituted a single grant. In 1664 the northeastern portion of the province, at that time the only part settled by Europeans, became the county of Albemarle, and a few years later, in 1670, another colony was established at Charles Towne (now Charleston, S.C.) on the Ashley River.