Midterm Test Studying - Virginia Colonies Flashcards
What was England’s first permanent settlement in North America?
Jamestown
Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina are all part of which colonial region?
South
How did Europe’s rising middle class impact colonization?
They became investors in companies that financed voyages to the New World
Unlike the poor in Europe, lower-class colonists
Could hope to acquire property and move up the social scale
Why were joint-stock companies a good way of financing new colonies in North America?
Large sums of money could be raised with little risk to the investors
Who financed the settlement of Jamestown?
Stockholders of the Virginia Company of London
Which of these was a reason people left Europe and came to the Americas? (3)
Overpopulation
to improve their way of life
Religious persecution
What is a charter?
Permission to start a colony in the new world
The power to grant charters allowing settlements in North America belonged to
The king or queen
Why did England want to establish colonies in America?
To make money from colonial trade
Why did settlers come to Jamestown?
To get rich
When did the first settlers come to Jamestown?
1607
Why was English settlement concentrated in the Tidewater region during early colonial time?
It provided access to rivers and shipping channels on which goods were shipped.
Why were water systems important for settlement? (3)
Promoted trade
Made transportation easier
Provided water for drinking and irrigation
Where is the James River?
In the middle of Virginia running across it
Why did John Smith say, “He that does not work shall not eat?”
He wanted the colony to be organized and safe.
The trading relationship between the settlers at Jamestown and the Powhatans was first initiated by
John Smith (befriended Pocahontas)
How did Pocahontas help keep the peace between her tribe and the settlers of England? (3)
Married John Rolfe
Befriended the settlers
Brought Jamestown settlers food
“Why will you take by force what you may obtain by love? Why will you destroy us who supply you with food? What can you get by war? We are unarmed, and willing to give you what you ask, if you come in a friendly manner. I am not so simple as not to know it is better to eat good meat, sleep comfortably, live quietly with my women and children, laugh and be merry with the English, and being their friend, trade for their copper and hatchets, than to run away from them… Take away your guns and swords, the cause of all our jealousy, or you may die in the same manner.” -1609, Jamestown. To whom is this speech directed at?
The settlers
Who developed a profitable tobacco plant, which helped save Jamestown’s economy?
John Rolfe
“Let therefore this my well advised protestation…condemn me herein, if my chiefest intent and purpose be not, to strive with all my power of body and mind, in the undertaking of so mighty a matter, now way led (so far forth as man’s weakness may permit) with the unbridled desire of carnal affection : but for the good of this plantation, for the hounour of our country, for the glory of God, for my own salvation, and for the converting to the true knowledge of God and Jesus Christ, an unbelieving creature, namely Pokhuntas.” -John Rolfe written to Sir Thomas Dale, governor of Virginia. The intentions described in the letter resulted in which event?
Increased peace between the settlers and Powhatans
“Within six months after Captain Smiths deparature, there remained not past sixtie men, women and children, most miserable and poore creatures; and those were preserved for the most part, by roots, heroes, acornes, walnuts, berries, now and then a little fish: they that had starch in these extremities, made no small use of it; yea, even the very skinnes of our horses.” -John Smith The primary source above refers to which event?
The starving time
Life in Jamestown proved to be (easier, harder) than (the colonists had expected, life in England)
Harder than the colonists had expected
Virginia developed a dependable source of income for itself by growing
Tobacco
What caused Bacon’s rebellion?
Frontier settlers were angry that the government wasn’t working to drive out the Indians
What was a primary goal of Nathaniel Bacon?
To drive out the Indians in the frontier
