Jamestown Site
River on which Jamestown was located.
What is on a peninsula on the James River?
Why England chose to explore in North America.
What is to increase its wealth and power?
The type of people in which the Jamestown colony were in short supply.
Who are laborers?
Person credited with the survival of Jamestown.
Who is John Smith?
When settlers first reached Jamestown.
What is 1607?
The way the Jamestown expedition was financed.
What is through the purchase of stock?
What England hoped to find by settling at Jamestown.
What is gold,silver, and other natural resources?
Why producing food was a problem.
What is few people knew how to farm?
John Casor's claim to fame.
What is he was the first person of African descent to declared a slave in the English colonies?
When women first arrived in Jamestown.
What is 1608?
The number of council members who governed Jamestown.
What is seven?
The first two countries that settled in the Americas. France and England were envious of their wealth.
What is Spain and Portugal?
Reasons settlers did not have much fresh water.
What is they landed during a drought. Available fresh water was often mixed with ocean water, making something icky and gross.
Granted the charters to the Virginia Company.
Who is King James?
When members of the House of Burgesses first met.
What is 1619?
The name for the horrible winter of 1609-1610.
What is the Starving Time?
The "thing" that financed the Jamestown colony.
Who is the Virginia Company of London?
Native American tribe with which the Jamestown settlers often had bad relations.
What is the Powhatan?
Introduced a sweeter, better tasting tobacco in the English colonies via the Caribbean.
Who is John Rolfe?
When African slaves arrived in Jamestown.
What is 1619?
Territory in which Jamestown was located.
What is Virginia?
A document giving investors permission to establish a colony.
What is a charter?
Reasons disease was rampant in Jamestown.
What is people threw their waste in nearby water and it was infested with mosquitoes?
Helped to first initiate trade with the Powhatan.
Who is John Smith?
Who Jamestown settlers depended on as reliable, inexpensive labor in the tobacco fields.
Who are African slaves?