Jamestown Quick Check - Suzanne Miller | Biblioteka

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Jamestown was founded in ______________ and became the first permanent English colony in North America

1606

1607

1609

1612

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water was deep enough for ships to dock

access to the Blue Ridge Mountains

believed there was a good supply of fresh water

location could easily be defended from attack by sea (by Spanish)

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increase wealth (economic venture)

open new markets for trade

hoped to furnish raw materials that could not be grown in England

for fun

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the stockholders

King James I

The Virginia Company of London

John Smith

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King James I

the stockholders of the Virginia Company of London

John Smith

John Rolfe

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marshy land, disease and a Spanish attack

deep water, starvation, and poor Algonquian language skills

marshy land, lack of skills, and unsafe drinking water

disease, attack from the Spanish, and unsafe drinking water