Founding Jamestown
What is 1607?
What year was Jamestown founded?
What type of government was first established in Jamestown?
What is an oligarchy?
What crop became the cash crop for the Virginia Company?
What is tobacco?
When did the first Africans arrive in Virginia?
What is August 1619?
Who granted the charter for the Virginia Company?
Who is King James I?
What was the name of the governing body created in 1619?
What is the House of Burgesses?
How many acres of land did a man receive under the Headright System?
What is 50 acres?
What was the initial status of the first Africans brought to Jamestown?
What is low-cost indentured servants?
What was the main reason the English wanted to establish Jamestown?
What is to find wealth and spread Christianity?
What rights did the charter for the Virginia Company guarantee?
What are the rights of Englishmen?
Describe the labor needed for growing tobacco.
What is labor-intensive work requiring many workers?
What did landowners see Africans as for their plantations?
What is a source of labor?
What was the first English colony before Jamestown that disappeared?
What is Roanoke?
Who was the first president of the council in Jamestown?
Who is Captain John Smith?
What was the process of growing tobacco from seeds to market?
What is planting, caring for, cutting, and curing the leaves?
How did the Headright System encourage the use of enslaved people?
What is providing land for each person brought to work?
Where was Jamestown located?
What is on an island at the mouth of a freshwater river?
What type of government emerged after the 1619 charter changes?
What is a representative democracy?
Why was Virginia's tobacco popular in England?
What is it was profitable and in high demand?
What was the impact of the drive for profit on the treatment of enslaved people?
What is they were treated as property and worked long hours?