vocabulary
What is a Presidio?
A Spanish fort
This man owned slaves of his own, then realized years later that this was wrong. He wrote essays, spoke out, and helped many slaves get freed.
Bartolome De Las Casas
The name of the Native American tribe living in Jamestown, Virginia.
The Powhatan Tribe.
The colony of New Spain is now modern day:
Mexico
The most important activity in Virginia’s early economy was to grow the cash crop of:
Tobacco
What is a cash crop?
In 1550, this King declared that the Spanish could no longer enslave Native Americans.
King Charles I
This man brought Tobacco plants over from the West Indies to grow in Jamestown.
John Rolfe
The site of the first permanent European settlement was in (modern day)
St. Augustine, Florida
What was the name of the war in 1622?
The Powahatan War
What is a Legislature?
The lawmaking branch of a government.
Queen Elizabeth I chose this man to set up a colony in North America.
Walter Raleigh
Pocahontas
Raleigh sent John White and about 100 colonists to:
Roanoke Island, Virginia
Virginia’s first legislature met in 1619- what was the name?
The House of Burgesses
What is a Royal Colony?
A colony ruled directly by a monarchy.
Raleigh sent this man and about 100 colonists to Roanoke Island (Virginia).
John White
Pocahontas convinced the Powhatan tribe to not kill this man
John Smith
England's first permanent North American settlement:
Jamestown, Virginia
The Spanish built missions- Spanish priests hoped to convert Native Americans to the:
Catholic Religion
What is stock?
Part ownership in a business.
Leader of Jamestown: "if you didn't work, you didn't eat"
The colony of Jamestown was named after this person
King James
In 1616, Pocahontas, John, and their son Thomas went to:
England
1624- Virginia became a royal colony- what does this mean?
This means the King owned the colony