Name: _______________________________
USVA History
Chapter 2.2 Study Guide
Jamestown
1.
_________________________ was the first permanent English settlement in North
America, and it was settled in Virginia in 1607.
2.
Jamestown was established by the ________________________________________ as a business venture.
3.
Virginia was settled by people seeking ___________________________ opportunities.
4.
Some of the early settlers in Virginia were known as “___________________________.”
They were wealthy English nobles who received large land grants from the king.
5.
Many poor English immigrants came to Virginia seeking better lives as
__________________________________ who agreed to work on tobacco plantations for about ________ to ________ years in order to pay for their passage to the New World.
6.
Virginia’s ___________________________________________ was the first elected colonial assembly, or legislature, in the New World. It has operated continuously and is today known as the ___________________________________ of Virginia.
7.
As the settlements in Virginia expanded, violent conflicts between colonists and
___________________________ often erupted.
8.
The growth of a ______________________-based, agricultural economy based on large landholdings in the Virginia led to the introduction of ____________________________ in the New World.
9.
The first Africans were brought against their will to Jamestown in the year __________ to work on _________________________ plantations.
10.
Tobacco represented the primary ________________________ of the Virginia plantation system.