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Roanoke and James.
Soc. studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the wealthiest country Europe is what and what made it so rich | Spain and it's colonies |
| who wanted to challenge them | english |
| english claimed | N of Florida |
| called this colony | Virginia after Queen Elizabeth the 1st |
| who was given a charter | Sir walter raleigh |
| charter is | document given to settle land claimed by ruler |
| the name Roanoke comes from what | the indian group the Roanoac |
| first time with the colony in 1585 what happened | the colony failed |
| 1587 came back to the colony and who was the leader | John White |
| he left why | to go back to england to get more food and tools |
| what he found when he came back from his trip | the word CROATOAN carved on a tree |
| 1606 what happened (for the merchants) | group of London merchants asked king james 1 for a charter for a new company |
| stock is | shares of ownership |
| planned to settle the colony near | Cheasapeake bay |
| the powhatan had lived for | more than 1000 yrs. |
| cheif was called | Powhatan |
| there are three things that he did and what other people did | called him Wahunsonacock, ruled 100s of villages, and payed tribute with deer skins corn and other valuables |
| by 1600s (indian tribes) | each village had it's own chief men or woman would be selected or even become the chief Powhatan |
| 1607 (the colony) | sent the first colonists to virginia |
| settlers were all | wealthy men or boys |
| the colony was located | on a swampy penninsula on chesapeake bay |
| 1/2 died because | water was salty and too dangerous to drink and there were disease carrying mosquitoes |
| John Smith saved colony by | telling them to build houses and plant crops he was now the new leader of jamestown |
| 1609 john smith had to | return to england the colony faced hardtimes one colonist called the winte of 1609-1610 the starvint time the colony barely survived |
| 1614 john rolfe harvests his first | crop of tabacco |
| cash crop is | crop sold for money |
| king james called the tabacco | stinking weed he also said that it was bad for your lungs brain and nose yrs. later we realized he's right |
| needed workers | indentured servents, worked for 5-7 yrs. then were free, get to own land, worked to pay for their trip to jamestown |
| some servents were from | africa |
| anthony johnson | was an african american who went to jamestown to work and pay off his debt now owns more than 250 acres of land on the pungoteague r. |
| by 1661 (the indentured servents) | many african american's life changed they were enslaved and forced to work on farms |
| 2 other major changes were | sent woman to the colony the trip was payed by the rich about to be husbands and the house of burgesses met they made laws for the colony represented white landowners this was their first step to self goverment |
| john rolphe married | pocahontas |
| they kept peace because | pocahontas's dad was chief powhatan's daughter |
| how did growth bring problems | planters were taking more and more land to plant tabacco and more and more hunting grounds from the native americans |
| after pocahontas died | chief powhatan's brother became the new the new powhatan adn he wanted the english to leave and attacked about 350 co. were killed a huge battle took place this was one of the last battles |
| what change in government happened | king james took over the government of Virginia he didn't like the governing themselves and named a governer of the colony he wanted control colonists don't like king james to control them and they didn't want to obey the laws from england |
| jamestown was | the first permanant eng. settlement |
| clashes over | land with native americans |
| colonists also want more | self government |
| what was john smith's quote | he that shall not work will not eat |
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