He provided military leadership by serving as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
100
A medium of exchange that includes coins and paper bills.
What is money?
100
The governing body of England.
What is Parliament?
100
This is what England hoped to find in the New World.
What is gold and silver?
100
These gave the Virginia Company the right to establish a colony and also extended English rights to colonists.
What is the Charters of the Virginia Company of London?
200
He was a slave from Virginia that served in the Continental Army and was given his freedom after the war.
Who is James Armistead Lafayette?
200
Trading or exchanging of goods and services without the use of money.
What is barter?
200
Taxing the colonists without them having representation in Parliament.
What is taxation without representation?
200
This is who financed (paid for) the Jamestown venture.
Who are the stockholders of the Virginia Company of London?
200
In 1619 the governor of Virginia called a meeting of this body.
What is the Virginia Assembly?
300
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
Buying a good or service now and paying for it later.
What is credit?
300
Written to state the reasons why we no longer wanted to be ruled by England. It stated that all people were created equal and had the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
Become the first permanent English settlement in North American in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
300
These are two citizen representatives from each division from Virginia.
What are burgesses?
400
He inspired other patriots by speaking out against taxation without representation by saying "give me liberty or give me death."
Who is Patrick Henry?
400
A good or service owed to another.
What is debt?
400
Virginians that stayed loyal to England.
What are loyalists?
400
He granted the charters for the Jamestown colony.
Who is King James I?
400
The first elected legislative body in America.
What is Virginia House of Burgesses?
500
He saved the colony of Jamestown by emphasizing self sustaining farming and a forced work program. He said "If you don't work you don't eat."
Who is John Smith
500
Money put away to save or to spend at a later time.
What is savings?
500
Virginians that fought in the Continental Army.
What are patriots?
500
Jamestown was primarily this kind of venture.
What is an economic venture?
500
The Virginia House of Burgesses continues to this day and is know by this name.