Part 2 Flashcards
Who has the power to make laws?
Legislative
What is the name for people chosen in elections to act or speak for the people who voted for them?
Representatives
Who were the elected representatives from each division of Virginia sent to serve in the General Assembly?
Burgesses
Who was Sir George Yeardley?
The governor of Virginia in 1619 - appointed by the Virginia company of London
What was the name of the first elected legislative body in English America giving settlers the opportunity to control their own government?
The house of burgesses (1640)
What was the impact of Africans on the Jamestown settlement?
Arrived in 1619. Brought against their will by Portuguese soldiers. Used as servants
Who was the chief of the native Americans who helped the settlers? His daughter?
Powhatan, Pocahontas- plant corn and harvest tobacco
What did the native Americans and English settlers trade?
Tools, pots and copper for food
What is a cash crop?
Grown to sell for money rather than to be used by the growers
The Virginia colony economy depended on what for their money?
Agriculture - tobacco
English and other Europeans settled primarily in what regions of Virginia?
Coastal plains (tidewater) and piedmont
Germans and scots-Irish settled primarily in what region of Virginia?
Shenandoah valley
Africans were primarily settled in what region of Virginia for tobacco crops?
Coastal plains (tidewater) and piedmont
When settlers arrived, where did the native Americans move to?
Forced inland (not near the coast)
Why did the capital move from Jamestown to Williamsburg?
Drinking water contaminated with salt water, unhealthy living conditions caused disease, fire destroyed wooded and brick buildings at Jamestown, Williamsburg was already an established town
