Jamestown

Question 0

James I grants charter to the Virginia Company to settle colonies in North America

Answer 0

1606

Question 1

Jamestown

Answer 1

First permanent English colony in North America (1607).

Question 2

First significant problem with Jamestown colony

Answer 2

The settlers were business men, not farmers.

Question 3

How much did Jamestown’s population decline within the first three years of settlement?

Answer 3

90%, from 600-60

Question 4

John Smith arrives in Jamestown and forces settlers to work

Answer 4

1608 (dismissed the next year)

Question 5

Laws Divine, Morall and Martiall

Answer 5

Written by Sir Thomas Dale, who arrived as governor of Jamestown in 1611. The regulations mapped out in “Laws…” were mostly martial. Men were given military ranks and forced to march to work, to church (twice a day), and back home again to the beat of a drum. Stiff penalties (including death) were proscribed for a variety of offenses, including those comparatively minor.

Question 6

Reaction to Dale’s “Laws…”

Answer 6

Englishman become weary of immigration to the colonies (John Smith: “No man will go from [England] to have less liberty there”)

Question 7

War exists between the Powhatans and the Colonists

Answer 7

1609-1614

Question 8

How did England and Spain differ in their relations with Native Americans

Answer 8

The English crown failed to take responsibility for protecting any rights of the Native Americans

Question 9

Legal concept meaning lands not occupied could be taken

Answer 9

vaccuum domicilium

Question 10

How did Native Americans and English colonists differ in their view of land rights?

Answer 10

The English thought they were buying land outright, while the Powhatans thought that they were only selling the Englishmen the rights to hunt, fish, and communally farm the land.

Question 11

Discovery of tobacco as a staple crop

Answer 11

1617

Question 12

The first two crops in England’s colonial mercantilist system

Answer 12

Tobacco (1617, Virginia)

Sugar (1640, West Indies)

Question 13

Virginia becomes a royal colony after the Virginia Company goes bankrupt and loses its charter

Answer 13

1624

Question 14

First form of democratic government in Jamestown

Answer 14

1619–The Virginia Company establishes an elected body of representatives under a company-appointed governor with power of veto. Martial law replaced by English common law.