Roanoke 1
Roanoke 2
Jamestown 1
Jamestown 2
Jamestown 3
100
The name of the first English colony in America?
What is Roanoke?
100
Roanoke is an island off the coast of _____________.
What is North Carolina?
100
This gave rights to the Virginia Company to start a colony.
What is a CHARTER?
100
This company received a charter from King James of England to start the Jamestown colony.
What is the Virginia Company?
100
This famous document in 1215 leads to the development of representative government in England.
What is the Magna Carta?
200
The thing John White returned to England for the second time.
What are SUPPLIES? (The colony was running low)
200
The reason why John White was unable to return to Roanoke for 3 years after going back to England for supplies.
What is WAR? (Between England & Spain)
200
At first, the settlers at Jamestown were only prepared to look for this.
What is GOLD?
200
This captain helped save the colony by forcing colonists to work for food.
Who is John Smith?
200
This is the type of government that Jamestown established for its colonists.
What is Representative Government?
300
The man who received permission from Queen Elizabeth to start the English colony of Roanoke.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
300
This original colonist was asked to return to Roanoke with new settlers, was the one to discover the colony's disappearance.
Who is John White?
300
The Jamestown economy was turned around when they began to grow this cash crop.
What is Tobacco?
300
This Powhatan princess helped restore peace by marrying John Rolfe.
Who is Pocahantas?
300
The name of the representative assembly in Jamestown which made laws with the governor.
What is the House of Burgessess?
400
The first English child born in North America.
Who is Virginia Dare?
400
This word describes the result of the first English colony.
What is FAILURE?
400
The biggest problem that the Jamestown colony faced only one year after arriving.
What is Starvation?
400
This area (the name of a future state) was a swampy place with unhealthy water and mosquitoes that spread malaria.
What is Virginia?
400
Only this type of person could vote in Jamestown.
Who are Men? (free and property owners)
500
The word carved into a tree that was the only clue to Roanoke's disappearance.
What is CROATOAN?
500
To this day, the fate of Roanoke's settlers still remains a _________________.
What is MYSTERY?
500
This group of people was brought to Jamestown to work on tobacco plantations and were later not allowed to vote.
Who are Africans?
500
This group of settlers was brought to Jamestown to make it more settled, but they still had a hard life which cut many of their lives short.
Who are Women?
500
This is another word used in Jamestown that means REPRESENTATIVES.
What are Burgesses?
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