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| The first successful English settlement in America |
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| King James I grants charter to the Virginia Company |
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| Riches, Use resources, Northwest passage, and create jobs for English. |
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| Which company sponsored Jamestown? |
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| London Co. (still the Virginia Co.) |
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| What three ships went to Jamestown? |
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| Discovery, Godspeed, and Susan Constant |
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| How many people got off in Jamestown? |
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| After 7 months, how many people survived? |
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| Fill in the blank: They found a spot that was a good defense against _________ |
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| What were the pros of the location? |
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| Trade well (on a bay), mountains to protects them from the Indians. |
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| Marshy land (swamps), poor farmland, downstream, lots of mosquitoes (malaria), and little game |
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| Captain John Smith's jobs |
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| leader and president of local assembly house in 1608 |
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| What happened to John Smith? |
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| He was captured by Indians, held captive for a month, impresses chief and was released. Also met Pocahontas. |
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| Policy of Rigid Discipline |
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| "You don't work, you don't eat" |
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| Primary guide for 50 years |
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1609-1610
Struggled through indian attacks and disease, supply of food (boat crashed in Bermuda) brings John Rolfe. 80% of people die. Lord De La Warr saves them. |
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| Visited often, Brought food and furs, stopped coming after she was told that Smith was dead.; kidnapped and held for ransom, met John Rolfe and married.Died in England from disease. |
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| Expiremented with tobacco and saved the colony and became a member of the house of burgesses. |
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| goverment, created laws, rules and taxes; replaced martial law with english law. People were elected. |
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| 1215, written in England. First written constitution in the whole world. |
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| 1st africans arrive, Jamestown became a royal colony, got burned down, and the capital of Virginia changed to Williamsburg. |
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