Powhatan People
deer skin
Many of the wealthy men came to Jamestown to look for...
gold
Jamestown's Fort was built in a ________________ shape.
triangle
During the Starving Time, Jamestown settlers were forced to eat what?
horses, rats, cats, boiled leather, dogs, mice
To encourage everyone in Jamestown to work and contribute, John Smith created a rule with the message of
no work, no eat
The Powhatan people gave the Jamestown settlers this when they traded
food
_________ ____________ was one of the most important leaders of Jamestown.
John Smith
What were the platforms called in each corner and what did they hold?
bulwarks, cannons
Why did the Powhatan People stop supplying food to the Jamestown settlers during the Starving Time?
they had no food to give, the Jamestown people were stealing from them.
_____________ was the crop that made the Virginia Company money in Jamestown.
Tobacco
__________________ was the daughter of Chief Powhatan and helped form a relationship between the Powhatans and the settlers.
Pocahontas
There were a large number of wealthy ____________ in the first group of settlers to Jamestown.
gentlemen
Jamestown's hot, humid summer weather created the perfect breeding conditions for _______________.
mosquitoes
How many Jamestown settlers survived the Starving Time?
60
Who was forced to work in the tobacco fields?
slaves and indentured servants
When the Jamestown settlers arrived in 1607, who was the leader of all the Powhatan people?
Chief Powhatan
The Virginia Company sent women to Jamestown to be ____________ for the settlers.
wives
When they first arrived in Jamestown, settlers didn't know that the water from the James River became ___________ and unsafe to drink
salty
The Starving Time occurred during the...
Winter of 1609-1610
What was the role or job of a Burgess?
to represent the people, to make laws
The relationship between the settlers and the Powhatan People began to go bad when some settlers were caught ____________________ from the Powhatan.
stealing
The __________ _____________ was a group of investors in England who planned to make money from the Jamestown settlement.
Virginia Company
Choosing a location for Jamestown that was far inland was an effort to help protect the settlement from _________________.
Spanish attacks
Virginia was experiencing a severe ____________ and food supplies were dwindling for everyone before the Starving Time.
drought
What was an indentured servant?
someone who had to work for 5-7 years in exchange for their passage to the New World