Jamestown
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Leader of Jamestown who enforced the rule "If you don't work, you don't eat."
Who is John Smith?
A cash crop that saved Jamestown economically.
What is tobacco?
What is Roanoke?
This European country was searching for gold in the New World.
What is Spain?
This English king awarded the charter for Jamestown.
Who was King James?
The Native American woman who is said to have saved John Smith.
Who is Pocahontas?
A very large farm where crops are grown to sell.
What is a plantation?
John White left the colony and returned years later because of this.
What is a war with England?
This valuable metal motivated many explorers.
What is gold?
This group of investors started Jamestown to make money
What was the Virginia Company?
Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy.
Who was Powhatan?
A new community in a new place.
What is a settlement?
The word carved into a tree that was the only clue left behind.
What is Croatoan?
The first law making group of Jamestown.
What is the House of Burgesses
A contract that gave a company the right to establish a colony.
What is a charter?
Who was Virginia Dare?
Someone who agreed to work for passage to the new world.
What is an indentured servant?
The leader who left Roanoke to return to England for supplies.
Who is John White?
The name of the section of the Atlantic Ocean where slave ships would go.
What is the Middle Passage?
This major problem caused many settlers to die during Jamestown's early years.
What is starving time?
The English explorer who led the Roanoke colony.
Who is John White?
A negative condition or circumstance that drives people to leave their home country or region.
What is a push factor?
Roanoke was located in this modern day state.
What is North Carolina?
When people invest in a company in order to make profit.
What is a Joint-Stock Company?