Jamestown Vocab

Establishing an area of control in another country or territory.

• Famine

• Colonization

• Repel

• Dysentery

Putting up your own money in expectation of making a profit.

• Commodity

• Dysentery

• Private Investors

• Export

Full of sick people.

• Disease-ridden

• Financed

• Empire

• Momopoly

To force an attacker back or away.

• Colony

• Bug-infested

• Famine

• Repel

One person or company controlling a product or service.

• Monopoly

• Export

• Governor

• Incapacitated

A group of private investors who gave money to start a colony in Virginia to make a profit.

• Commodity

• Dysentery

• Makeshift

• Virginia Company

An item or product that can be sold or traded.

• Commodity

• Famine

• Dysentery

• Governor

Sending a product or good out for sale.

• Incapacitated

• Export

• Council

• Makeshift

An English colonization attempt that disappeared without a trace.

• Virginia Company

• Bug-infested

• Roanoke Colony

• Famine

Serious lack of food.

• Famine

• Colony

• Empire

• Makeshift