Question

A word used in jamestown to describe men who had money and power

Answer 1

By 1675, Virginia had become Great Britain's most lucrative American colony, exporting more than ten million pounds of tobacco to England annually. Import duties collected on this tobacco earned the crown £100,000 a year—a figure that would rise, by 1700, to roughly £400,000. Not even England's valuable sugar colonies in the West Indies yielded such high revenues. 

While these revenues hardly compared to the staggering mineral wealth extracted by Spain from the New World a century earlier, in many ways tobacco was England's gold. Foreign pirates lurked off the American coast hoping to waylay English vessels carrying the valuable weed, and British ships of war were deployed just to ensure its safe passage to England.

Answer 2

Gentlemen is the word used in Jamestown to describe men who had money and power.

Jamestown is an English settlement in the Americas which is situated on the east bank of the Powhatan river. The people of Jamestown used the word ‘gentlemen’ to describe men who had money and power. The gentlemen were men of the upper-middle class or higher status society members who could afford and bought shares in the Virginia Company in London. The gentlemen were given the legal right to display arms, and can employ laborers to work for them.