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

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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.