Jamestown Colony
In what year was Jamestown founded
1607
Who organized England’s first attempts to establish a colony in North America?
Sir Walter Raleigh
In what year did the Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth?
1620
Who was Pocahontas’s father, the leader of the Powhatan Confederacy?
Chief Powhatan
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
What company financed the Jamestown settlement
The Virginia Company of London
What island was the site of the Lost Colony
Roanoke Island
What ship carried the Pilgrims to the New World?
Mayflower
Who introduced tobacco to Jamestown?
John Rolfe
What was the first English child born in America?
Virginia Dare
Who was the leader who enforced the rule “He that will not work shall not eat”?
Captain John Smith
Who was the governor of the Roanoke Colony?
John White
What was the name of the agreement that established self-government in Plymouth?
The Mayflower Compact
Who led a rebellion against the governor of Virginia in 1676?
Nathaniel Bacon
How did tobacco change the economy of Virginia?
It created a profitable cash crop and led to slavery
What crop saved Jamestown and made it profitable?
Tobacco
What word was carved on a post and became the colony’s most famous clue?
CROATOAN
Who helped the Pilgrims learn to plant corn and survive their first year?
Squanto
Who was the Wampanoag chief who made peace with the Pilgrims?
Chief Massasoit
What idea did the Mayflower Compact establish for future governments?
Self-government and majority rule
What event in 1619 marked the beginning of self-government in the colonies?
The first meeting of the House of Burgesses
What are two main theories about what happened to the Lost Colony?
They moved to live with Native Americans or were attacked
What event in 1621 is considered the first Thanksgiving?
A harvest celebration between the Pilgrims and Wampanoag
Who was the Puritan governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (that later absorbed Plymouth)?
John Winthrop
Name one major impact of early colonies like Jamestown and Plymouth on the future U.S.
Growth of democracy, colonization, and cultural blending