English Colonization and Jamestown

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What is an economic venture?

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Starting a business to make money

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Jamestown, the first permanent settlement in America, was founded when?

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1607

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What organization financed the settlement of Jamestown?

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The Virginia Company of London

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When settlers arrived in 1607, they founded Jamestown on a narrow peninsula, bordered on 3 sides by the James River. Due to erosion, Jamestown now sits on an ______ rather than a peninsula.

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island