Colony
Jamestown was a colony of ________.
England
Jamestown was on a peninsula in the _____ river.
James
John Smith helped the colony survive by...
forcing settlers to work (no work = no food)
The leader of the Powhatan was Chief ______ and his daughter's name was ______.
Powhatan; Pocahontas
The King sent a governor to the colony to ______.
lead the government
England hoped to find ____ and _____ in America, like the Spanish had in Mexico.
gold and silver
Jamestown was founded in ______.
1607
Jamestown survived by focusing on agriculture. What is agriculture?
farming/growing crops
At first, the Powhatan helped the colonists by teaching them ____
survival skills/ farming
The job of a legislative body is to ______
write/pass laws
Jamestown's natural resources were ______ and _____
timber (wood) and iron
Settlers chose the Jamestown site because they could defend if the _________ attacked by sea.
Spanish
In ______, enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown.
1619
The Powhatan taught the settlers to grow _____ and ____.
corn and tobacco
In 1619, the first government in English North America was formed, called the G_______ A_______.
General Assembly
The charter from the King was important because it
- set the __________ of the colony
- gave the settlers _____________.
- English rights
Colonists chose the Jamestown site because it had deep water, which helped them because _____
their ships carrying goods needed a dock with deep water
The Africans were forced to work growing _______ which made the colony a lot of money.
tobacco
As the Jamestown colony grew, American Indians had to move _____
away / inland
In the 1640s, the Burgesses separated from the Governor's Council and became the ______ of _____.
House of Burgesses
The group of stockholders that financed (paid for) the Jamestown colony were the V____ C____ of L_____.
Virginia Company of London
The Jamestown settlement faced many hardships like...
[multiple]
- marshy site = no safe drinking water
- a drought = not enough water for crops
- settlers did not have survival skills
- mosquitoes & disease
In 1620, __________ arrived at Jamestown to help establish and grow the colony.
women
The Powhatan people traded ________ and ______ with the English colonists.
food, fur
Who could be a member of the House of Burgesses or vote for Virginia's government?
only some free men who owned land.