Jamestown I
Jamestown is part of the larger colony known as....
What is Virginia?
The first representative government of Jamestown.
What is The House of Burgesses?
Plants that are grown to be sold for money.
What is a cash crop?
3 examples of PUSH reasons for immigration.
What are disease, poverty, criminal activity, forced, war, taxes, and persecution.
What is the year Columbus arrived in America?
What is 1492?
One of the first leaders of Jamestown who said "He who does not work, does not eat!"
Who is John Smith?
Reason for French and Dutch Settlement
What is the Fur Trade?
Before there was Jamestown, this lost colony was established but disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
Time of no food but lots of misery, madness, and despair.
What is the "Starving Time"?
Land that is settled by a foreign country.
What is a colony?
3 examples of PULL reason for immigration.
What is to start of better life, profit, gold, spread faith, adventure, and to farm.
What year was Jamestown founded?
What is 1607?
Saved John Smith's life in the early years of Jamestown.
Who is Pocahontas?
Reason for Spanish settlement.
What are the 3 G's?
The crop that saved Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
Percent of the people who perished during the Starving time.
What is 75%
A nonexistent water route to Asia between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Name for an elected member to an assembly.
What is a Burgess?
The year of the Starving Time.
What is 1609?
14 year old girl whose remains were found in a cellar.
Who is Jane?
The interior of North America stretching from the Great Lakes south to the Gulf of Mexico and lay between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains.
What is the area of French settlement?
The type of landform Jamestown was founded on.
What is an island or marsh near the James River?
A document that gives the holder the right to organize a settlement in that area.
What is a Charter?
Name for a person that helps a country colonize by moving to a new country or place permanently to settle.
What is an immigrant?
The type of government we have where we elect people to represent us and make laws for the common good.
What is a Republic?
The year of Bacon's Rebellion.
What is 1676?
He documented the Starving Time and mentioned cannibalism but until the discover of Jane, no one believed it was true.
Who is George Percy?
Along the Atlantic Coast of North America west to the base of the Appalachian Mountains
Where did the English settle in North America?
Type of military strategy used by the Powhatan Indians against the Jamestown settlement.
What is siege or siege warfare!
A mixture of salt and freshwater that was poisonous to drink.
What is brackish?
A settler who was contracted to work for a specific amount of time to pay for their passage to America
What is an indentured servant?
An uprising of planters in Virginia against the governor whom they felt was favoring the rich and neglecting the poor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The first time the House of Burgesses met.
What is July and August of 1619?
The name of the Governor of Jamestown during Bacon's Rebellion.
Who is Governor Berkeley?
They settled near present day New York City along the Hudson River and on Manhattan Island.
Who were the Dutch?