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100
Father of Pocahontas and the Chief of the Native American tribes in Virgnia.
Who is Chief Powhatan?
100
A document giving rights to land for the purpose of establishing a permanent settlement
What is a charter?
100
The year colonists landed in Jamestown
What is 1607?
100
The first group of people that inhabited North America
Who are the Native Americans?
100
The "cash crop" that was grown in Virginia and sent to England to make money - also called "Green Gold."
What is tobacco?
200
Person who issued the Virginia Company of London a charter
Who is King James I?
200
Doing something to make money.
What is an economic venture?
200
The year when most of the settlers in Jamestown died - known as the "Starving Time."
What is 1609?
200
The Company that looked for investors to finance the trip to the New World.
What is the Virginia Company of London?
200
The four things that the settlers came looking for when they set sail to the new world.
What are (1) gold/silver, (2) raw materials, (3) new trade routes, and (4) more power?
300
Person who saved the colonists by teaching them to grown tobacco and corn and worked as a go-between with the settlers and Native Americans
Who is Pocohontas?
300
A person who worked for 4 or 5 years for a landowner and then was considered free
What is an indentured servant?
300
The year the first African slaves arrive in Jamestown.
What is 1619?
300
The three group of people that contributed to the culture of Virginia
Who are the Native Americans, the Africans, and the English?
300
The two things established by the charter given to the Virginia Company of London
What is (1) the right to establish a settlement in North America (2) rights of English extended to colonists?
400
Captain of the Susan B. Constant
Who is Capt. Christopher Newport?
400
A person who invests in a company and holds stock.
What is a stockholder?
400
The first representative government, the Virginia House of Burgesses, meets at Jamestown.
What is 1619?
400
The three ships that sailed from England to the New World
What is the Susan B. Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery?
400
The four main hardships the settlers faced when they began to settle in Jamestown.
What are the land was marshy, the water was brackish (salty), the settlers lacked skills to survive, and there was little food
500
Said "He who does not work, does not eat!"
Who is Capt. John Smith?
500
Type of landform Jamestown was when the settlers first landed there.
What is a peninsula?
500
More women arrived in Jamestown to start families and ensure the colony continued to grow
What is 1620?
500
The governing body in Jamestown that became the current day Virginia General Assembly
What is the House of Burgesses?
500
Four events that helped the colonists survive after the starving time
What are (1) two supply ships arrived with people and supplies, (2) people began growing their own crops (self-sustaining agriculture), (3) women arrived, and (4) John Smith forced people to work?