Questions from chapter 3, section 1

1.) One of the best known colonies in the New world is Jamestown, located in now an day Virginia. It was established in 1606 when several charters decided to try and successfully claim a settlement for England. The group that established Jamestown was known as the Virginia Company. The reason the virginia company was capable of being successful was because it was a joint- stock company in which investor bought part of the company. After it was establish, inorder to keep order, ten colonist in virginia including jamestown sent two men known as burgesses as representative to an assembly.

2.) The main reason the virginia company established settlements was to make money.

3.) When colonists couldn't find gold or silver in Jamestown, they learned to grow tobacco.

4.) Because a lot of other countries were already setting up colonist in the new world and england didnt have one yet. Plus the Colony was supposed to be a way to make mor money.

5.) Growth of Jamestown -> Tobacco and the slave trade

6.) 30 % of the settlers where children