Lecture 8A Quiz

Process in which English landowners moved from producing grains to raising sheep. Large numbers of tenant farmers were dispossessed

Enclosure

Economic principle that measured a nation's wealth in terms of the gold or silver it controlled. Sought positive balances of trade.

Mercantilaism

Name that English colonists used to refer to a group of Native Americans in Virginia and their paramount leader

powhattan

Town whose marshy location and poor water resulted in high mortality rates for English residents.

Jamestown

Ship that took an unexpected detour to Bermuda in 1609.

Sea Venture

The winter of 1609-10 when Virginia's population greatly declined.

Starving Time

Daughter of a Native American leader, she married a white man and died in England. She told John Smith that the English were liars.

Pochahontas

Introduced West Indian Tobacco to Virginia

John Rolfe

Leader of the Virginia Company who instituted the headright policy and shipped thousands of settlers to Virginia

Edwin Sandy

Representative government established by the Virginia Company in 1618

House of Burgesses