Select the answer that completes each statement.

Question

The
Virginia Company
founded the Virginia colony.

The
government took over the Virginia colony because too many colonists had died.

and
worked on the tobacco plantations.

The
was the first elective governing body in a British colony.

Answer 1

The Virginia Company founded the Virginia colony.

The government took over the Virginia colony because too many colonists had died.

Indentured servants and enslaved Africans worked on the tobacco plantations.

The House of Burgesses was the first elective governing body in a British colony.