Early Settlements
This was the first successful English settlement in Virginia (1607).
What is Jamestown?
This cash crop became very important in Virginia and Maryland.
What is tobacco?
What was the name of the first representative assembly in Virginia?
What is the House of Burgesses?
The southeast is known for this climate.
What is warm weather and long growing seasons?
A person who moves to a new place to live.
What is a settler?
This earlier colony mysteriously disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
A crop grown to sell for profit is called this.
What is a cash crop?
Colonists elected officials called.
What are Burgesses?
Rivers were important because they helped transport this.
What are crops/goods?
A place where people settle and build a community.
What is a colony?
Settlers first came to Virginia looking for this valuable metal.
What is gold?
Large farms in the South were known as this.
What are plantations?
King James 1st thought the colonies were getting too
powerful, in 1684, he proclaimed them what?
What are Royal Colonies?
Fertile land means the soil is good for this
What is growing crops?
A trade system where goods are bought and sold.
What is economy?
Even though they didn’t find gold, settlers stayed because the land was good for this.
What is farming?
This type of labor replaced indentured servants on many plantations
What is enslaved labor?
In a Royal Colony, a governor is the leader, who is appointed by _________.
Who is the King?
Plantations were often built near these for easy shipping
What are rivers or coastlines?
Working without freedom or pay.
What is slavery?
This group of workers agreed to work for several years in exchange for passage to America.
What are indentured servants?
Farmers needed rich soil and this natural resource to grow crops well.
What is water (rivers)?
What important event occurred on October 19th, 1781?
What is the-The Continental Army defeated the British Army- Revolutionary War is Over?
What invention helped speed up trade and grow the Southeast as a great farming exporter?
What is the steamboat?
These people owned small areas of land and worked on small farms with their families.
What is a Yeoman?