Jamestown Settlement

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Across
  1. 7. A plant containing nicotine that English colonists found could be produced as fast as it could be sold: popularized smoking in England.
  2. 9. A person who had to work years for a Virginia Planter in order to gain free passage to America.
  3. 12. The ocean English colonists sailed across in order to get to Virginia, taking a total of four months.
  4. 14. The continent where slaves were commonly transported from.
  5. 15. Resources that London Company believed could be obtained in America.
  6. 17. A grant given to London Company by King James I, permitting them to start a colony in Virginia.
  7. 18. The river where colonists sailed 60 miles up and founded Jamestown.
  8. 19. What colonists decided to live in instead of building houses.
  9. 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. 1. A join-stock company formed by English investors in hopes of making money by trading in North America.
  2. 2. An early industry that produced transportation for oversea traveling.
  3. 3. The type of government Jamestown became after the House of Burgesses was established.
  4. 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. 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. 6. One of the first farm products to be raised successfully.
  7. 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.
  8. 10. The continent where colonists traveled in hopes of finding valuable resources and land capable of being settled upon.
  9. 11. An English settler that introduced a new type of tobacco to Jamestown by using seed from the West Indies.
  10. 13. An illness many Jamestown settlers suffered from during Jamestown's first year due to the drinking water: a fancy word for diarrhea.
  11. 16. The winter of 1609-1610 where Jamestown was impacted hard, one of the main events being starvation.