| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Who received Queen Elizabeth's permission, to begin a colony in North America? Where was the new colony? | Sir Walter Reliegh, Roanoke |
| Who was John White and what did he do? | he was on of the first colonists, he returned back to england to get more supplies |
| What did the Virginia Company of London receive from King James I? *** | a charter |
| What is a charter? *** | a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |
| What was the name of the English colony founded in Virginia in 1607? *** | jamestown |
| Explain the problems faced by the Jamestown colonists? *** | misquitoes giving disease, the water was unhealthy, they chose a bad spot, they quarreled with one another |
| How did John Smith help the colony? *** | he enforced stern rules that forced the colonists to work if they wanted to eat, he visited nearby indian tribes and requested food |
| Who is Powhatan? *** | the most powerful cheif in the area |
| Who did John Rolfe marry? *** | Pocahontes |
| What became Jamestown's profitable crop? *** | tobacco |
| What did King James think about smoking? ` | a "vile custom" |
| What type of reforms took place in 1619 in order to attract more settlers? | they took steps to establish a stable government |
| Who are burgesses? *** | represtitives to the government |
| What is the House of Burgesses? *** | an assembly where the burgesses met |
| What marked the beginning of representative government in the English Colonies? *** | the house of burgesses |
| What is representative government? *** | voteres elect representitives to make laws for them |
| Where did the idea that people had political rights come from? *** | the magna carta |
| What is the Magna Carta? *** | a document that said that the king could not raise taxes without first consulting a Great Council of nobles and church leaders, also called the Great Charter |
| Who signed the Magna Carta? *** | King John |
| What did the Magna Carta say? *** | the king could not raise taxes |
| How was Parliament divided? *** | the house of lords and the house of commons |
| Who was able to vote in Virginia? | first any man, over time they changed it to free men who owned property |
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