English Settlement at jamestown

What is an indentured servant?

• someone with bad teeth

• a person who promises to repay his debt with so many years of labor

• a person who works inside for a standard wage

• a slave

A colony under the control of a monarch.

• royal colony

• headwright system

• joint stock company

Companies in which investors pooled their wealth with the hope of yielding a profit.

• joint stock companies

• royal stock companies

• joint stock corporations

• headwright system

The Virginia Company’s system in which settlers and the family members who came with them each received 50 acres of land

• headright system

• joint stock company

• royal colony

What type of colony was Jamestown at first?

• joint stock company

• headright system

• royal colony

Why did the settlers go to

Jamestown?

• in search of gold

• to gain a new start

• adventure

Why did Jamestown nearly fail?

• did not tend to farming

• became unorganized

• some did not work

• all of the above

Which group of Indians were living in the Coastal Plain in 1607?

• Cherokee

• Powhatan

• Monacan

• Mattaponi

Jamestown was the capital of this English colony.

• North Carolina

• New York

• Pennsylvania

• Georgia

• Virginia

What cash crop helped the colony to survive long term?

• Tobacco

• Wheat

• Cotton

• Oranges

• Sugar Cane