Red - FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH SETTLEMENT STUDY GUIDE
1. Why did the English want to
establish a colony in America?
2. What did the English think
they would find in America?
3. What are raw materials?
1. For wealth and power.
2. Silver and gold
3. Unprocessed natural products
used in manufacturing
4. An American settlement would
4. What did England hope to do
furnish raw materials that could
with America’s raw materials?
not be grown or obtained in
England, while opening new
markets for trade.
5. What is an economic venture? 5. Something that is done to
make money.
6. As an economic venture
6. Why was Jamestown
founded?
7. By the stockholders of the
7. How was Jamestown
Virginia Company of London
financed?
8. The stockholders who
8. What was the Virginia
financed Jamestown
Company of London?
9. What was the first permanent 9. Jamestown
English settlement in North
America?
10. 1607
10. When was Jamestown
founded?
11. On a narrow peninsula
11. Where was Jamestown
surrounded on three sides by the
located when it was first
James River
established?
12. Where is Jamestown located 12. On an island in the James
River
today?
13. Why did the colonists decide 13. Easily defended from attack
by sea
on the location of Jamestown to
Deep enough for ships to dock.
settle?
They believed they had a good
supply of fresh water
14. Who gave the charters to the 14. The King of England
Virginia Company of London?
15. Gave the Virginia Company
15. What did the charters do?
16. When was the first Virginia
Assembly?
17. During this time who was
considered a citizen?
18. Who made up the Virginia
Assembly?
19. When did the Burgesses
become a separate legislative
body?
20. What was the first elected
legislative body in America?
21. Why was The Virginia House
of Burgesses important?
22. What is the House of
Burgesses known as today?
23. When did women arrive in
Jamestown?
24. Why was the women’s arrival
important?
25. What was different about the
Africans that arrived to the
colony?
the right to establish a settlement
in North America.
Established companies to begin
colonies in the New World.
Extended English rights to the
colonists
16. 1619
17. Adult men
18. Included two citizen
representatives (called
“burgesses”) from each of the
divisions of Virginia,
The governor’s council, and the
governor
19. 1640s
20. The Virginia House of
Burgesses
21. It gave the settlers the
opportunity to control their own
government.
22. The General Assembly of
Virginia
23. 1620
24. It allowed settlers to start
families and make a more
permanent settlement
25. They arrived against their will
(It is believed that they arrived as
baptized Christians and therefore
were labeled indentured servants
for a period of 5 to 7 years)
26. What did the arrival of the
Africans make it possible to do?
26. Expand the tobacco
economy
27. What were the hardships that
the colonists faced?
27. The site they chose to live on
was marshy and lacked safe
drinking water.
The settlers lacked some skills
necessary to provide for
themselves.
Many settlers died of starvation
and disease.
28. The arrival of two supply
ships, the forced work program
and strong leadership of Captain
John Smith, and the emphasis on
self-sustaining agriculture
29. Who initiated trading relations 29. John Smith
with the Powhatan?
30. The Powhatans
30. Who did the early settlers
trade with?
31. What did the Powhatan trade 31. Food furs and leather
with the English?
32. Tools, pots, guns and other
32. What did the English trade
goods
with the Powhatan?
33. Pocahontas became friends
33. How did the Powhatan
with the English and believed
contribute to the survival of the
they could live in harmony. They
colony?
introduced new crops to the
English, including corn and
tobacco.
34. Daughter of Chief Powhatan
34. Who was Pocahontas?
35. What changed the Powhatan 35. They realized the English
settlement would continue to
view of the English?
grow.
28. What helped the colonists
survive?
36. How did the Powhatan feel
about the English?
36. The Powhatan saw the
colonists as invaders that would
take over their land.
37. What are the three branches 37. The legislative branch, the
executive branch and the judicial
of government in Virginia?
branch
38. What is the legislative branch 38. The General Assembly
in Virginia known as?
39. It makes state laws
39. What does the legislative
branch (General Assembly) do?
40. What two parts make up the 40. The Senate and House of
Delegates
General Assembly?
41. Who makes up the executive 41. The Governor
branch?
42. Makes sure that the state
42. What does the executive
laws are carried out
branch (Governor) do?
43. The state’s court system
43. What makes up the judicial
system?
44. The judicial branch decides
44. What does the judicial
cases about people accused of
branch (court system) do?
breaking the law and whether or
not a law agrees with Virginia’s
constitution.