Colonial Quest! (Reasons for English Colonization)
England hoped to find these precious metals in America.
What are silver and gold?
Jamestown was founded on a narrow what?
What is a peninsula?
These documents granted the Virginia Company of London the right to establish a settlement.
What are charters?
The first representative legislative body in English America was called the what?
What is the General Assembly?
Africans arrived in Virginia against their will in this year.
What is 1619?
Jamestown was primarily this type of venture.
What is an economic venture?
This river bordered Jamestown on three sides.
What is the James River?
The charters defined these for the colony.
What are physical boundaries?
The General Assembly was formed in this year.
What is 1619?
The arrival of Africans made it possible to expand this economy.
What is the tobacco economy?
This company financed the settlement of Jamestown.
What is the Virginia Company of London?
The settlers chose Jamestown because it could be easily defended from attack by this group.
What are the Spanish?
The charters extended these to the settlers.
What are English rights?
Representatives in the General Assembly were called what?
What are burgesses?
The arrival of women in 1620 helped to establish Jamestown as this type of colony.
What is a permanent colony?
This year Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is 1607?
The water along the shore was deep enough for these to dock.
What are ships?
The charters were granted by this person.
Who is the King of England?
By the 1640s, the burgesses became this separate legislative body.
What is the House of Burgesses?
These people captured the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown.
What are Portuguese sailors?
England wanted to establish a colony to increase their wealth and this.
What is power?
This natural resource was found at Jamestown.
What are timber and iron?
The Virginia company of London used these documents to organize the new world.
What are charters?
The Virginia General Assembly dates back to this Jamestown event.
What is the 1619 General Assembly?
The legal status of the first Africans to arrive is this.
What is unknown?