Charter and Reasons
A faraway place settled by people but ruled by their home country.
What is Colony?
The 1619 assembly gave Virginia settlers their very first chance to control this.
What is their own government?
Primary geography reason for choosing Jamestown site: deep water allowed ships to do this.
What is dock or tie up to shore?
The powerful chief of many Indigenous tribes who helped early settlers survival.
Who is Chief Powhatan?
Important plan that John Smith created to help Jamestown succeed.
What is " thou who does not work does not eat"?
The primary financial goal of the stockholders of the Virginia Company of London.
What is making money?
The group of people permitted to vote for burgesses in 1619 Virginia.
What are free, adult, property owning men?
The narrow land formation Jamestown was located on in 1607 (surrounded by water on 3 sides).
What is a peninsula?
Captain John Smith's famous strict rule: "He that will not work shall not..."
What is eat?
The Powhatans eventually viewed these people as invaders who would take over their land.
English Colonists
The English monarch who granted the official charter establishing the Virginia Company in 1606.
Who is King James I?
Title given to delegates elected from each local settlement to serve in assembly.
What are Burgesses?
Three severe challenges: marshy unsafe water, severe drought, and lack of this skill set.
What are farming and survival skills?
Two essential crops English settlers learned to successfully grow from Powhatan people.
- Ships could dock
- Able to defend from Spanish attack
- Plenty of natural resources
What are reasons Jamestown was chosen?
Two key rights guaranteed to colonists by the 1606 First Charter of Virginia.
What are rights and boundaries?
By the 1640s, the burgesses became a separate legislative body known as this house.
The brutal winter of 1609–1610 caused by severe famine and lack of stored food.
What was the starving time?
Two key items traded by Powhatan people to English settlers in exchange for tools and pots.
Farmed tobacco and expanded the economy
Who are enslaved Africans?
Two specific valuable metals English investors hoped to discover in Virginia.
Gold and Silver
Official executive position appointed directly by the King to head colonial leadership.
Who is the governor?
Jamestown founded, Charter signed, Africans arrive, English women arrive.
What is Charter (1606) → Jamestown (1607) → Africans (1619) → Women (1620)?
The arrival of English women in 1620 allowed settlers to start families and make Jamestown this.
What is a permanent settlement or colony?
Served as the ambassador between the Powhatans and the English Settlers
Who is Pocahontas?