Important People
Granted charters to the Virginia Company of London.
Who is King James I?
Caused many settlers to die at Jamestown.
What is starvation and disease?
Economic Venture
What is a trip to make money?
Prior to being an island, this was Jamestown's geographical makeup.
What is a peninsula?
The year the General Assembly first met.
What is 1619?
Started trade relationship with the Native Peoples and created a forced work program.
Who is Captain John Smith?
Reduced the amount of food available.
Charter
What is a legal document?
Cash crop important to Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
The three parts of the General Assembly
What are the burgesses, governor, and governor's council?
The chief of many tribes that provided leadership to his people and taught the settlers survival skills.
Who is Powhatan?
Settlers lacked _____ ____that were necessary to provide for themselves.
Agriculture
What is farming or raising animals?
Three reasons that England wanted to establish an American colony.
What is
-Increase wealth and power
-Find silver and Gold
-Get raw materials
The two representatives from each of the divisions of Virginia.
What is the Burgesses?
Who is Pocahontas?
An emphasis was placed on this to help Jamestown.
What is agriculture?
Legislative
What is law-making?
Three things granted in the Virginia Charter.
What is
-Authority to establish a settlement in North America
-Define physical boundaries of the colony.
-Extend English rights to the settlers.
In the 1640s, the burgesses became this separate legislative body.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The first woman to arrive and marry in Jamestown.
Who is Anne Burras?
The motto from Captain John Smith's forced work program.
"If you do not work, you do not eat"
Servitude
What is being forced to work under someone else's control and having no freedom?
The place that the first Africans were brought to.
What is Old Point Comfort?
The two legislative bodies of the General Assembly in the 1640's.
What are the House of Burgesses and the Governor's Council?