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Chapter 5

Chapter 5. A 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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Chapter 5

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  1. Chapter 5 A Rough Beginning in Jamestown

  2. A plant that farmers grow to sell at a market

  3. Cash crop

  4. To ship goods from one country or district to another area of the world

  5. export

  6. A person bound by a contract to work without pay for a period of time

  7. Indentured servant $

  8. Daughter of Chief Powhatan who befriended Jamestown settlers and helped keep peace. She married John Rolfe, a planter, and visited England with him.

  9. Pocahontas

  10. Governor of Virginia in 1610. His ships rescued the Jamestown settlers who survived the starving time.

  11. Lord De La Warr

  12. A fort and settlement on the upper James River, built by the Jamestown Colony in 1611.

  13. Fort Henrico

  14. Planter who began growing tobacco as a cash crop

  15. John Rolfe

  16. The first group of local representatives in Virginia, established in 1619

  17. 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.

  18. The colonial legislature of Virginia, established in 1619

  19. 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.

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