Jamestown Flashcards

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