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Vocab
Starving Time
Who is it?
Assorted
100

How many ships made the first voyage to Jamestown?

three

100

The wealthy men who traveled on the first voyage to Jamestown were called ____

gentlemen

100

The Jamestown settlers expected to find pieces of ___ lying around, due to a rumor the Spanish started.

gold

100

One of Jamestown's leaders, ____ ____, saved the settlement with his rule, "If you don't work, you don't eat."

John Smith

100

TIE BREAKER 1: 

when exactly, was starving time?

Winter between 1609-1610

200

This was the first English settlement in North America:

Jamestown

200

This cash-crop became Virginia's money-making export:

tobacco

200

A severe ____ in Virginia was one of the causes for the starving time.

drought

200

Chief ____ helped the Jamestown settlers find and get food. This helped saved the settlers lives.

Powhatan

200

The settlers of Jamestown wouldn't have survived without who's help?

Powhatan

300

The ____ Company sent settlers to Jamestown to make a profit.

Virginia

300

Name the main natural resource that the Jamestown settlers were able to send back to the Virginia Company.

lumber

300

One cause of the Starving Time was that the Powhatan Indians killed any settlers who stepped outside Jamestown's ____

fort

300

This is who Jamestown was named for:

King James

300

In 1609, how many settlers arrived in Jamestown?

about 400

400

Jamestown was settled in the present-day state of ___?

Virginia

400

The site for Jamestown was probably uninhabited by Native Americans because it became ____ in the summer.

swampy

400

More Powhatan Indians were killed by _____, than by fighting.

disease

400

The Powhatan Princess who formed a relationship with John Smith was _____. 

She was Chief Powhatan's daughter.

Pocahontas

400

Name the three ships that sailed on the first voyage to Jamestown

Discovery, Godspeed, and Susan Constant

500

From which country did the Jamestown settlers orginate?

England

500

The largest ship that sailed on the first voyage to Jamestown was called, "The ____  _____."

Susan Constant

500

Name three things the Jamestown settlers ate during the Starving Time.

Possible answers:

horses, cats, dogs, snakes, roots, leather, shoes, mice, rats, human flesh

500

Jamestown settler, ____ ____, sparked the tobacco trade with his special blend of tobacco seeds he got from the Caribbean Islands.

John Rolfe

500

What year did the first settlers of Jamestown arrive?

1607

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