Jamestown Colony

Permanent Settlement

1200

This was the year when Jamestown was founded.

1607

1900

The settlers were hoping to find this at Jamestown.

What is gold and silver?

2300

This is the term to describe why Jamestown was started in America.

What is economic venture?

2500

This group in England financed or helped pay for the economic venture in Jamestown.

What is Virginia Company of London?

2800

These people paid for the trip hoping to make a profit from gold, silver, and the raw materials that would be sent back to England.

What is stockholders?

Reasons for Location

1200

Jamestown was founded and built along this river.

What is James River.

1900

Jamestown was surrounded on three sides of water. This describes what geographic feature.

What is peninsula?

2300

This was the biggest reason Jamestown was located where it was.

What is a fresh water supply?

2500

These were a group of people they hope to defend themselves easily from because of their location.

What is the Spanish?

2800

Today Jamestown is this geographic feature.

What is an island?

Events and People

1200

This king in England gave the Virginia Company of London a charter to start a colony in Virginia.

What is King James?

1900

This period was in 1609-10 and half of the settlers died

What is the Starving Time?

2300

She was the Indian princess who supposedly saved John Smith's life as well as marry another Englishmen keeping peace between the English and the Indians.

What is Pocahontas?

2500

In 1619 and 1620 two groups of people join the colonists helping to make Jamestown a permanent settlement.

What is Africans and Women?

2800

What did Africans do?

What is Expand the tobacco economy?

Hardships

1200

This wasn't safe as they thought it was in Jamestown.

What is drinking water?

1900

Many settlers died because of this.

What is starvation or diseases?

2300

This was a change in Jamestown that led to their survival with help from England.

What is the arrival of supply ships?

2500

With an emphasis on agriculture or farming, the colony began to survive. They started growing this crop referred to as "brown gold".

What is tobacco?

2800

This was a way that John Smith got everyone to work in Jamestown.

What is "No work, don't eat."?

Virginia Government

1200

This was male landowner and citizen who represented the plantation owners and towns in Jamestown.

What is a burgess?

1900

The House of Burgesses role with the governor and the council was to do this.

What is make the laws?

2300

The burgesses in 1640 became a separate legislative body and met separately from the governor.

What is House of Burgesses?

2500

This is what we refer to our current government in Virginia dating back to its earliest beginnings in 1619.

What is Virginia Assembly?

2800

This was the year that the burgesses became a separate body called the House of Burgesses.

What is 1640?