Charters
Jamestown Location
Reasons for Colonization
100

He granted the charter to the Virginia Company of London.

Who is King James?

100

Christopher Newport sailed ___________ ships to North America.

What is three?

100

The colonists were looking for this to increase their wealth.

What is silver and gold?

200

This is like a permission slip.

What is a charter?

200

The reason the colonists could dock their ships.

What is deep water?

200

England was competing with these countries for wealth and power.

What is Spain and France?

300

A group of stockholders that paid for the Jamestown settlement.

What is the Virginia Company of London?

300

Jamestown was a narrow _______________ in 1607.

What is a peninsula?

300

England established a colony in North America because they were low on ___________.

What are raw materials?

400

The Jamestown charter set these so the colonists would know where they could go in the new land.

What are boundries?

400

The settlers THOUGHT they had a good supply of this when they chose the location of Jamestown.

What is fresh water?

400

The main goal of the stockholders of the Virginia Company of London was ___________.

What is to make money?

500

These were granted to the colonists so they were treated the same as if they were in England.

What is English rights?

500

A reason Jamestown could be easily defended.

What is inland and bordered by water on three sides.

500

England wanted to use natural resources found in North American to open new markets for ______________.

What is trade?