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Native People
Reasons for Colonization
Location at Jamestown
Charters & General Assembly
Africans & Woman Arrive, Hardships
100
What do we call the "study of the past"?
Archeology
100
True/False: Some European countries, including England, were in competition to expand their empires.
True
100
What do we call a piece of land bordered by water on three sides?
Peninsula
100

Who financed the settlement of Jamestown?

The Virginia Company of London

100

Africans arrived against their will in _________.

1619

200
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
200
England wanted an American colony to increase their _________ and __________. (MAIN IDEA!)
Wealth and power
200
What river is Jamestown bordered by?
James River
200

The General Assembly included two citizen representatives, called __________.

Burgesses

200

Why did the Portuguese sail to the area that is present-day Angola?

To capture African men and women 

300
What is the large Indian town used by Indian leaders several hundered years ago?
Werowocomoco
300
What two things did England hope to find in America?
Silver and gold
300
One reason the colonists decided to move to Jamestown was because the location could be easily __________ from attack by the sea.
Defended
300

Who was allowed to take part in the Virginia General  Assembly?

Certain free adult men

300

The arrival of women in Jamestown made it possible for people to start _________.

Families

400

What is one thing the English would trade with the natives in return for food?

Copper/tools/pots

400
An American settlement would furnish raw ___________ that could not be grown or obtained in England.
Materials
400
One reason the colonists decided to pick Jamestown to settle was because they thought the water along the shore was __________ enough for ships to dock.
Deep
400

Who was a burgess?

An elected representative from each division of Virginia sent to serve in the General  Assembly.

400

The colony's _________ was greatly dependent upon temporary and permanent servitude.

economy

500

The native people showed the settlers how to plant _________ and harvest _________.

corn; tobacco

500
Jamestown was founded is a _______________ venture.
Economic
500

One reason the colonists decided to pick Jamestown to settle was because ___________ told the settlers to go inland.

Instructions/VA Company of London/Charters

500


The King of England granted charters to the Virginia Company of London.  What were two reasons the Virginia charters were important?

1. To define the physical boundaries of the colonies

2. To extend English rights to the settlers.

500

True or False: The first Africans who were forcibly brought to Old Point Comfort were originially free people.

True