Jamestown Settlement
Across
- 7. A plant containing nicotine that English colonists found could be produced as fast as it could be sold: popularized smoking in England.
- 9. A person who had to work years for a Virginia Planter in order to gain free passage to America.
- 12. The ocean English colonists sailed across in order to get to Virginia, taking a total of four months.
- 14. The continent where slaves were commonly transported from.
- 15. Resources that London Company believed could be obtained in America.
- 17. A grant given to London Company by King James I, permitting them to start a colony in Virginia.
- 18. The river where colonists sailed 60 miles up and founded Jamestown.
- 19. What colonists decided to live in instead of building houses.
- 20. One of the three boats that left England for Virginia, carrying settlers in order to start colonies. Hint: an old English term one would say to another to wish them success and or safety.
Down
- 1. A join-stock company formed by English investors in hopes of making money by trading in North America.
- 2. An early industry that produced transportation for oversea traveling.
- 3. The type of government Jamestown became after the House of Burgesses was established.
- 4. The daughter of Chief Powhatan: famously included in the story by John Smith where he claims she begged her father to spare his life.
- 5. A former English soldier who strengthened Jamestown during his time as Captain before having to depart back to England after being injured in a gunpowder explosion.
- 6. One of the first farm products to be raised successfully.
- 8. The current king of England who allowed London Company to start a colony in Virginia and had both the river and town named in his honor.
- 10. The continent where colonists traveled in hopes of finding valuable resources and land capable of being settled upon.
- 11. An English settler that introduced a new type of tobacco to Jamestown by using seed from the West Indies.
- 13. An illness many Jamestown settlers suffered from during Jamestown's first year due to the drinking water: a fancy word for diarrhea.
- 16. The winter of 1609-1610 where Jamestown was impacted hard, one of the main events being starvation.