Under the leadership of ________________, people only got food if they worked for it.
Who is John Smith?
100
The first elected legislative body in America was the ______________________.
What is the General Assembly of Virginia?
100
The main goal of the first settlers in Jamestown was to _______________________.
What is make money (find gold)?
100
In 1607 this English colony was founded.
What is Jamestown?
100
Upon which river is Jamestown located?
What is the James River?
200
The Powhatans saw the _________________ as invaders who eventually would take over their land.
Who are the colonists?
200
The name of Virginia's current legislative body is _____________________________.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
200
England wanted to start the Jamestown colony to increase wealth and power. They wanted to find _____________________________________.
What is gold and silver, raw materials, and new trade markets.
200
In 1619 this group of people was introduced to the colony to work as slaves.
Who are Africans?
200
This group of people helped finance the Jamestown settlement by purchasing stock in the Virginia Company of London.
Who are stockholders?
300
Who arrived to Jamestown in 1620 to help create families in Jamestown?
Who are women?
300
The three members of the Virginia Assembly were _________________, ____________________, and ____________________.
What is the Governor's Council, the Governor, and the Burgesses?
300
Jamestown was an _______________________ venture. (Something that is done to make money.)
What is economic?
300
In this year women arrived to help establish families in the Jamestown colony.
What is 1620?
300
This is something grown to be sold for money.
What is a cash crop?
400
The group of people who arrived in 1619 to harvest tobacco and work the plantations were ____________________.
Who are slaves?
400
The Virginia House of Burgesses gave the settlers _________________________________.
What is the opportunity to control their own government?
400
_______________ granted charters to the Virginia Company of London which gave them the right to establish a colony and extended English rights to the settlers.
What is The King of England?
400
An indentured servant was asked to serve a period of _________________________ years to pay off a debt.
What is 5 to 7?
400
The Jamestown colony's most famous cash crop was ____________________________.
What is tobacco?
500
She began a friendship with the colonists that helped them survive.
Who is Pocahontas?
500
Which part of the Virginia General Assembly gave the people control of their own government?
What is the House of Burgesses?
500
The Jamestown colony was established in this year.
What is 1607?
500
In which month and year did the settlers leave England in order to establish Jamestown the following spring?
What is December, 1606?
500
The ___________________ traded tools, pots, guns, and other goods to the Powhatans for food, fur, and leather.