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Jamestown
Settlement, problems, recovery
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Official permission from the government to create a company or corporation. | Charter |
| A privately owned company where investors pool their money to pursue some business venture | Joint stock company |
| Someone who contributes money to a corporation or other business in hopes of making a profit | investor |
| The joint stock company that started the Jamestown colony | the Virginia Company |
| The primary purpose of the Jamestown colony was to | find gold or other precious metals or jewels |
| Jamestown was established 30 miles up the James River in order to | be concealed from the Spanish |
| Jamestown was established on what kind of land | a swamp |
| This was the cause of many cases of disease at Jamestown | bad water |
| The Jamestown colonists wasted much time in a futile search for | gold |
| Many of the colonists were useless to the colony because they had the wrong | skills |
| These Jamestown colonists refused to work and gambled and drank instead. | gentlemen |
| For long periods of time Jamestown colonists could not farm or hunt for food because of | hostile Native Americans |
| If you were in the initial group of Jamestown colonists your chances of surviving for three years was about | 15% |
| The colony was saved when this leader took over Jamestown | John Smith |
| John Smith's one rule was | if you don't work you don't eat |
| This policy by John Smith also helped save the colony | Friendly relations and trade with the Native Americans |
| John Smith returned to England when he was | wounded in a powder explosion |
| The winter of 1610 in Jamestown was known as | the Starving Time |
| This man replaced John Smith as the strong leader of Jamestown | Lord De La Warr |
| Under the leadership of Lord De La Warr everyone must farm or | be imprisoned or killed |
| Relations with the Native Americans improved when this woman married the colonist, John Rolf | Pocahantas |
| The marriage of Pocahontas was arranged by _______________ in order to secure the colonists as a ally | her father Powhatan |
| Youngsters sent to Jamestown to serve an artisan and learn their skills were | apprentices |
| After the colony met with some success, the major source of labor for Jamestown was from | indentured servants |
| Indentured servants worked for a period of time after arriving in Jamestown in order to | pay for their passage to the colony |
| In 1619 the first ___________ were brought to Jamestown to provide labor. | Africans |
| The first Africans came to Jamestown as | indentured servants |
| After serving, usually for seven years, indentured servants were freed and received | 50 acres of land |
| Giving land to indentured servants only became a problem when the | colonists began to live long enough to collect the land |
| The amount of land given to indentured servants began to cause conflicts with the | Native Americans |
| This made Jamestown a profitable enterprise. | tobacco |
| brown gold is | tobacco |
| This colonist developed the mild tobacco that became popular in Europe | John Rolf |
| After 1619, Jamestown was largely ruled by the New World's first | elected, representative government |
| The Jamestown colonists were able to demand a say in their government because government from England was inefficient and the colonists possessed significant | wealth |
| The assembly of representatives elected by Jamestown colonists was called the | House of Burgesses |
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