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Hardships faced by English Settlers
First Permanent English Settlement
System of Goverment
Diverse Colony
Trading Relationships
100
Preparing and working the soil to produce crops; having to do with farming.
What is agriculture?
100
Three reasons the area Jamestown was selected to begin a settlement.
What is defense from Spanish, deep water for ships to dock and good supply of drinking water?
100
This was the first elected legislative body in the colony and in English America.
What is The House of Burgesses?
100
This person researched different types of tobacco plants, planted them, and shipped Virginia's first cash crop of tobacco to England.
Who is John Rolfe?
100
The woman who began a friendship with the settlers and helped them survive?
Who is Pocahontas?
200
Hardships that english settlers faced.
What is marshy land, lack of safe drinking water, lack of skills and starvation?
200
These indians shared their corn with the settlers.
Who are the Powhatan indians?
200
The Virginia House of Burgesses was an important step in beginning this foundation.
What is the foundation of American Democracy?
200
A crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers.
What is a cash crop?
200
Native Americans traded these items.
What is food, fur and leather?
300
This person provided leadership to help Jamestown grow.
Who is Captain John Smith?
300
This river borders Jamestown on all three sides.
What is the James River?
300
Meeting that was called by the Governor of the Virginia colony in 1619.
What is the General Assembly?
300
Sailors that captured African men and woman from the country of Angola.
Who are the Portuguese sailors?
300
This person began trading relationships with the American Indians.
Who is John Smith?
400
This became the most important way of life for the English when arriving to Jamestown.
What is agriculture?
400
Disadvantages of having Jamestown as a place to live.
What is marshy land, mosquitos, and no planting of crops?
400
The oldest representative legislative body in the western hemisphere.
What is the Virginia General Assembly?
400
This helped strengthen the Jamestown economy.
What is tobacco?
400
The English settlers traded these items.
What are tools, lead cooking pots, and copper?
500
Two reasons why many settlers died.
What is starvation and disease?
500
These three small ships sailed into the Chesapeake Bay to begin a permanent settlement in Jamestown.
What is the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and the Discovery?
500
The people that made up the General Assembly in 1619 when the group first met.
Who are the governor, the governor's council, and the House of Burgesses, that were the first to be elected?
500
These people cooked better meals, sewed clothing and took care of the sick after arriving to Jamestown.
Who are the English women?
500
The Native Americans taught the English to survive by,
What is hunting, fishing and introducing corn?