VSS Flashcards
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Reasons for English colonization
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- Wanted to increase England’s wealth and power
- Hoped to find silver and gold
- America had natural resources that could not be grown or obtained in England
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Jamestown
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- Primarily an economic adventure (to make money
- Stockholders of the Virginia Company of London financed (paid for) the settlement of Jamestown
- Became a permanent settlement in 1607
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Why the area was chosen for the Jamestown settlement
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- Easily defended from attack by sea (by the Spanish)
- Water was deep enough for ships to dock
- They believed the water supply was fresh
- No Powhatan were living there
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Charter
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In 1606 King of England granted a charter to the Virginia Company of London to establish a settlement in North America and extend English rights to settlers
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Hardships for settlers
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- Starvation
- Lacked farming and building skills
- Salty, brackish water
- Mosquitoes that carried disease and malaria
- Indian attacks
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Reasons why Jamestown was a poor place to settle
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- Poor drinking water
- Did not ask Powhatan permission to settle at Jamestown
- It was swampy with mosquitoes that carried diseases
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House of Burgesses
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- First elected law making body in English America
- only free white males could be a burgess
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General Assembly
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- First met in 1619
- Gave the colonists a change to have a say in their government
- 2 representatives called burgesses
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Powhatan Indians
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- Indians who helped the colonists survive and traded with them
- Powhatan taught the colonists to grow corn and tobacco
English gave: copper, pots, and tools
Powhatan gave: food, furs, and leather
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Chief Powhatan
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Chief of many tribes who taught colonists survival skills
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Pocohontas
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- Daughter of Chief Powhatan
- She was a contact between the Indian people and the colonists
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King James I
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Granted charters to the Virginia Company
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1619
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- Africans arrive in Jamestown and allowed the colony to expand the tobacco economy
- House of Burgesses (General Assembly) met for the first time
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1620
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- Bride ship arrived in Jamestown
- Single women sent to marry and begin families
- Made it possible to establish a more permanent settlement
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Slaves
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- Africans that were captured by sailors from Portugal from what is now Angola
- Brought against their will first as indentured servants then slaves
- Worked on tobacco plantations
