Jamestown Notes

The First Permanent English Colony

• The Constitution

• The Plymouth Colony

• House of Burgesses

• Jamestown

the first representative government in America

• House of Burgesses

• Jamestown

• Virginia Company

• Joint Stock Company

The ___established___in 1619 so they could make their own laws

Supposedly was saved by Pocahontas

• John Smith

• John Rolfe

• John Cena

• King James I

What was the first cash crop

• Marijuana

• Watermelons

• Tobacco

• Pumpkins

who creates a smoother breed of tobacco

• John Rolfe

• Edward Maria Wingfield

• Pocahontas

• John smith

What are reasons most settlers died? Check all that apply.

• Disease

• Being to hot

• Attacks

• Hunger

What was the starving time

• When most settlers died

• When the food grows too much

• When the natives took all their food

• When there were not enough slaves to harvest food

Who takes leadership of the colony

• Pocahontas

• King James I

• John smith

• Edward Maria Wingfield 

What did King James I do?

• Grant a charter to the Virginia Company in 1606 to settle & civilize America

• prevent Spanish advancements in the New World & find a Northern passage to Asia

• eat all the food

• used the settlers for money