first 50 quiz Flashcards
define 3 G’s
Gold,Glory,God
Joint Stock Companies
A group of investors pool their money together in hopes of making more money. They often funded settlers into the New World in an attempt to ease overcrowding in Europe.
Virginia Company
A Joint stock company that funded a group of settlers to go into the New World to establish a permanent colony in Virginia (Jamestown)
First Virginia Charter
Granted permission to settle Jamestown and thus started English rule over much of North America
Jamestown
Initially unsuccessful because many settlers refuse to work. john
smith became the leader. Smith Led Raids on local native tribes for food. This angered Powhatan, the local chief.
James River
The river that Jamestown was founded on.
John smith
came to Jamestown and became the leader coining the pharase “he who works not, eats not” most of are knowledge comes from his book “a historic of Virginia”
Starving time
john smith returns to England, without leadership Jamestown ran out of food
powhatan
the chief of the Powhatan that occupied the surrounding lands of Jamestown
pocahontas
the daughter of Powhatan who allied with john smith to promote peace between the natives and the settlers.
john rolfe
led Jamestown after john smiths absents, and introduced tobacco to Jamestown.
tobaco
ticket to Jamestown survival after the starving time
mercantillism
house of burgesses
plymouth colony
William Bradford
separtists
mayflower
mayflower compact
sqanto
