Permanent Settlement
Reasons for Location
Events and People
Hardships
Virginia Government
1200

This was the year when Jamestown was founded.

1607

1200
Jamestown was founded and built along this river.
What is James River.
1200
This king in England gave the Virginia Company of London a charter to start a colony in Virginia.
What is King James?
1200
This wasn't safe as they thought it was in Jamestown.
What is drinking water?
1200
This was male landowner and citizen who represented the plantation owners and towns in Jamestown.
What is a burgess?
1900

The settlers were hoping to find this at Jamestown.

What is gold and silver?

1900

Jamestown was surrounded on three sides of water. This describes what geographic feature.

What is peninsula?

1900

This period was in 1609-10 and half of the settlers died

What is the Starving Time?

1900
Many settlers died because of this.
What is starvation or diseases?
1900
The House of Burgesses role with the governor and the council was to do this.
What is make the laws?
2300
This is the term to describe why Jamestown was started in America.
What is economic venture?
2300
This was the biggest reason Jamestown was located where it was.
What is a fresh water supply?
2300
She was the Indian princess who supposedly saved John Smith's life as well as marry another Englishmen keeping peace between the English and the Indians.
What is Pocahontas?
2300
This was a change in Jamestown that led to their survival with help from England.
What is the arrival of supply ships?
2300
The burgesses in 1640 became a separate legislative body and met separately from the governor.
What is House of Burgesses?
2500
This group in England financed or helped pay for the economic venture in Jamestown.
What is Virginia Company of London?
2500
These were a group of people they hope to defend themselves easily from because of their location.
What is the Spanish?
2500
In 1619 and 1620 two groups of people join the colonists helping to make Jamestown a permanent settlement.
What is Africans and Women?
2500
With an emphasis on agriculture or farming, the colony began to survive. They started growing this crop referred to as "brown gold".
What is tobacco?
2500
This is what we refer to our current government in Virginia dating back to its earliest beginnings in 1619.
What is Virginia Assembly?
2800
These people paid for the trip hoping to make a profit from gold, silver, and the raw materials that would be sent back to England.
What is stockholders?
2800
Today Jamestown is this geographic feature.
What is an island?
2800

What did Africans do?

What is Expand the tobacco economy?

2800
This was a way that John Smith got everyone to work in Jamestown.
What is "No work, don't eat."?
2800
This was the year that the burgesses became a separate body called the House of Burgesses.
What is 1640?
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