Question

In what century was the Jamestown colony founded? A) the 15th century B) the 16th century C) the 17th century D) the 18th century

Answer 1

Answer:

For most of the 1600s, white indentured servants worked the colony's tobacco fields, but by 1705 the Virginia colony had become a slave society.

Explanation:

The founding of Jamestown, America's first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607 – 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts – sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world.