C HAPTER 5 A Rough Beginning in Jamestown. A PLANT THAT FARMERS GROW TO SELL AT A MARKET.
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Transcript of C HAPTER 5 A Rough Beginning in Jamestown. A PLANT THAT FARMERS GROW TO SELL AT A MARKET.
CHAPTER 5A Rough Beginning in Jamestown
A PLANT THAT FARMERS GROW TO SELL AT A MARKET
CASH CROP
TO SHIP GOODS FROM ONE COUNTRY OR DISTRICT TO ANOTHER AREA OF THE WORLD
EXPORT
A PERSON BOUND BY A CONTRACT TO WORK WITHOUT PAY FOR A PERIOD OF TIME
INDENTURED SERVANT
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DAUGHTER OF CHIEF POWHATAN WHO BEFRIENDED JAMESTOWN
SETTLERS AND HELPED KEEP PEACE. SHE MARRIED JOHN ROLFE, A
PLANTER, AND VISITED ENGLAND WITH HIM.
POCAHONTAS
GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA IN 1610. HIS SHIPS RESCUED THE JAMESTOWN
SETTLERS WHO SURVIVED THE STARVING TIME.
LORD DE LA WARR
A FORT AND SETTLEMENT ON THE UPPER JAMES RIVER, BUILT BY THE
JAMESTOWN COLONY IN 1611.
FORT HENRICO
PLANTER WHO BEGAN GROWING TOBACCO AS A CASH CROP
JOHN ROLFE
THE FIRST GROUP OF LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES IN VIRGINIA,
ESTABLISHED IN 1619
HOUSE OF BURGESSES
The House of Burgesses, the first legislative assembly in the American colonies, held its first meeting in the choir at Jamestown Church in the summer of 1619. Its first order of business: setting a minimum price for the sale of tobacco.
THE COLONIAL LEGISLATURE OF VIRGINIA, ESTABLISHED IN 1619
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Wood engraving of the General Assembly, held in 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia, shows representatives, or "burgesses," meeting with the governor and his council. The assembly formed the New World's first colonial legislature.