First Permanent English Settlement

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Answer the questions below

  1. What was the main purpose for English colonization in Virginia?
  2. Your answer:
    wealth
    religion
    adventure
    spices


  3. What gave the rights of Englishmen to the colonists?
  4. Your answer:
    Declaration of Independence
    charters
    Virginia Company of London
    Constitution


  5. What was the first elected legislative body in America?
  6. Your answer:
    Governor
    Council
    House of Burgesses
    Senate


  7. What made it possible for Jamestown to become a more permanent settlement?
  8. Your answer:
    women
    slaves
    indentured servants
    craftsmen


  9. What did the Powhatans NOT trade with the English?
  10. Your answer:
    furs
    food
    leather
    housing


  11. Who financed the settlement at Jamestown?
  12. Your answer:
    stockholders
    colonists
    king
    John Smith


  13. What made it possible to expand the tobacco economy?
  14. Your answer:
    women
    slaves
    indentured servants
    craftsmen



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