Establishing the Colony
Which region is the Jamestown colony in?
Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley & Ridge, or Appalachian Plateau?
Coastal Plain
Three
Who were the two new groups that arrived to Jamestown after its settlement?
Africans and women
What is another word for "hardship"?
Difficulty
Which tribe lived at the Jamestown colony with the colonists?
Who paid for the settlement of Jamestown?
A. King of England
B. The settlers
C. The English government
D. Virginia Company of London
D. Virginia Company of London
Who had the power to grant charters that allowed them to settle in North America?
King of England
Which was the FIRST group to be at Jamestown?
A. Powhatan tribe
B. Colonists
C. Captain John Smith
D. John Rolfe
A. Powhatan tribe
1 hardship that the colonists faced:
The site was too _______________, which meant that it was swampy.
Marshy
1 way that the native people helped the Jamestown settlement:
They showed the settlers how to plant _____________________.
What is 1 reason England wanted to establish a colony in Virginia?
They wanted to find _________ and ____________.
Gold and silver
What was the first elected legislative (law-making) body in America called?
A. House of Burgesses
B. Virginia Company of London
C. Governor's Council
D. Virginia Council of Burgesses
A. House of Burgesses
How did Africans arrive in the Jamestown colony?
A. They sailed to Jamestown and decided to stay
B. They were brought by the native people
C. They were looking for a new place to start a family
D. Portuguese sailors captured them from Africa and sent them to Jamestown
D.
1 hardship the colonists faced:
They did not have the _____________ needed to survive, meaning they didn't know how to do anything.
Skills
1 way the native people helped the Jamestown settlement survive:
They traded ___________ with the English.
Food, tools, etc. (case-by-case)
What is 1 reason for England to establish a colony in Virginia?
England wanted to increase its ____________ and _____________.
Wealth and power
Which legislative body came from the establishment of the House of Burgesses at Jamestown in 1619?
A. General Assembly
B. House of Delegates
C. Governor's Council
D. British Parliament
A. General Assembly
Whose arrival helped for more families to be established and a more permanent settlement to be possible?
Women
Many of them died from ______________ and _______________.
Starvation/lack of food and disease/mosquitoes/sickness
They taught the settlers _________________.
Survival skills (hunting, fishing, gathering, etc.)
Why did the English settle at Jamestown?
They believed they had a good supply of _____________________.
Fresh water
Why did the King grant charters to the Virginia Company of London?
To extend English _____________ to the settlers in the New World
Rights
Africans were a main labor source at Jamestown. What cash crop did they grow the most?
Tobacco
1 hardship that the colonists faced:
The water was _____________ to drink.
Unsafe
Over time, the native people eventually viewed the settlers as _________________, who would take over their land.
Invaders