Terms : Hide Images
| 3248213909 | economic venture | journey with the goal to make money |  | 0 |
| 3248240086 | wealth and power | reason England started a colony in the New World |  | 1 |
| 3248295614 | gold and silver | what England hoped was in Virginia |  | 2 |
| 3248338846 | 1607 | the year Jamestown was founded |  | 3 |
| 3248338909 | founded | started |  | 4 |
| 3248370366 | Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in America |  | 5 |
| 3248374885 | stockholders | People who own part of a company |  | 6 |
| 3248380674 | Stockholders of the Virginia Company of London | the men who financed the trip to Jamestown |  | 7 |
| 3248382200 | financed | paid for |  | 8 |
| 3248406022 | island | a piece of land surrounded by water on all sides |  | 9 |
| 3248426383 | peninsula | a piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides and land on 1 side |  | 10 |
| 3248437732 | inland | away from the ocean |  | 11 |
| 3248442507 | fresh water | reason for choosing Jamestown site |  | 12 |
| 3248459996 | deep enought for ships to dock | reason for choosing Jamestown site |  | 13 |
| 3248459997 | go inland | instructions given as a reason for choosing Jamestown site |  | 14 |
| 3248462771 | easily defended from British invaders | reason for choosing Jamestown site |  | 15 |
| 3248456572 | charter | important government document |  | 16 |
| 3248964751 | English rights | rights granted to the colonists in the charter |  | 17 |
| 3248967797 | establish a settlement | what the charter gave Virginia Company of London the right to do |  | 18 |
| 3248977201 | 1640s | decade the House of Burgesses became a separate legislative body |  | 19 |
| 3248986965 | General Assembly | first elected legislative body in English America |  | 20 |
| 3248997516 | Virginia General Assembly | Virginia's current legislative body |  | 21 |
| 3248992332 | House of Burgesses | legislative body that became a became its own separate legislative body in the 1640s |  | 22 |
| 3249004359 | legislative | law-making |  | 23 |
| 3249007760 | burgess | representative |  | 24 |
| 3249037050 | two burgesses | number of burgesses or representative from each of the divisions of Virginia elected to the General Assembly |  | 25 |
| 3249049208 | control their own government | reason the General Assembly is so important in Virginia history | | 26 |
| 3249059163 | women | had families and made Jamestown a more permanent settlement |  | 27 |
| 3249068552 | Africans | expanded the tobacco economy and made Jamestown a more permanent settlement |  | 28 |
| 3249075440 | Portuguese sailors | brought African men and women to Virginia against their will from what is now present-day Angola |  | 29 |
| 3249086968 | Africans and women | two groups of people that made Jamestown more diverse | 30 | |
| 3249105071 | marshy | ground that is wet all the time |  | 31 |
| 3249108730 | marshy site with unsafe water | hardship faced by the Jamestown settlers |  | 32 |
| 3249113225 | men lacked survival skills | hardship faced by the Jamestown settlers | 33 | |
| 3249118106 | died of starvation and disease | hardships faced by the Jamestown settlers | 34 | |
| 3249121156 | arrival of supply ships | change that resulted in survival |  | 35 |
| 3249126997 | forced work program | " You don't work; you don't eat." |  | 36 |
| 3249129591 | Captain John Smith | strong leader who instituted the forced work program | | 37 |
| 3249136692 | Pocahontas | daughter of Powhatan who served as a contact between the native peoples and the English |  | 38 |
| 3249146733 | trading relationship | Captain John Smith initiated this relationship with the native peoples |  | 39 |
| 3249157633 | invaders | how the native peoples began to see the English colonists |  | 40 |
| 3249165551 | corn and tobacco | what the native peoples showed the settlers how to grow |  | 41 |
| 3249168632 | Powhatan | chief of many tribes who provided leadership to his people and taught the settlers survival skills |  | 42 |
