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Colonization
Geography
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Relationship with Native People
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100
This country established a colony in Virginia to expand its wealth and power.
What is England?
100
The Jamestown settlers chose a location that they wrongly believed had this.
What is a source of clean water?
100
John Smith started this, forcing even the gentlemen settlers to participate in growing food.
What is a forced work program?
100
This group of Native Americans lived closest to the Jamestown settlement.
Who are the Powhatans?
100
The king of England granted this to give the Jamestown colonists the same rights as English citizens.
What is a charter?
200
The settlers hoped to find these in Virginia.
What are gold, silver, and raw materials?
200
The water around Jamestown was deep enough to do this.
What is dock ships?
200
The arrival of these brought food to the starving colonists.
What are supply ships?
200
Native people traded mainly this with the English in exchange for tools, pots, and copper.
What is food?
200
Two of these represented each division of Virginia in the General Assembly.
What are burgesses?
300
England established Jamestown primarily as this.
What is an economic venture?
300
Jamestown used to be located on one of these.
What is a peninsula?
300
People from this continent were brought to Jamestown against their will to become servants, or possibly slaves.
What is Africa?
300
He initiated trading relationships with the native people.
Who is John Smith?
300
This was the first elected legislative body in English America.
What is The House of Bugesses?
400
This group financed the settlement of Jamestown.
What is The Virginia Company of London?
400
Today, Jamestown is located on one of these.
What is an island?
400
The arrival of Africans made it possible to expand this in Virginia.
What is the tobacco economy?
400
The leader of many tribes, he taught the Jamestown settlers survival skills.
Who is Chief Powhatan?
400
The current Virginia General Assembly dates back to this year.
What is 1619?
500
In this year, Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is 1607?
500

Which bodies of water border Virginia?

Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay

500
Arrival of more of these people encouraged more settlers to stay in Virginia and start families.
What are women?
500
As the Jamestown settlement grew, the native peoples came to see the settlers as these.
What are invaders?
500
In the 1640s the General Assembly was made up of the House of Burgesses plus this legislative body.
What is The Governor's Council?