Colonial Beginnings
The first English attempt to establish a colony in North America
What is Roanoke Island?
Jamestown is known as ______________
The first permanent English settlement
The king who granted the Jamestown charter
Who is James I of England?
The number of regions the thirteen colonies were divided into
What is three?
A colony is a settlement that remains politically connected to this
What is its mother country?
The mysterious nickname given to the Roanoke settlement
What is the Lost Colony?
The year Jamestown was founded
What is 1607?
The leader who enforced the rule that colonists must work to eat
Who is Captain John Smith?
The region known for rocky soil, fishing, and shipbuilding
What is New England?
Established most nearly means __________________
What is founded or set up?
The word carved into a tree that may have been a clue to the settlers’ location
What is CROATOAN?
The three ships that carried settlers to Virginia
What are the Discovery, Susan Constant, and Godspeed?
The Native American tribe living near Jamestown
Who are the Powhatan?
The region known for rich soil and grain farming
What is the Middle Atlantic region?
A charter is this type of document
What is an official written permission?
The English monarch who approved Raleigh’s attempt to colonize Roanoke
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
The river where Jamestown was established
What is the James River?
The Powhatan chief’s daughter who helped the settlers
Who is Pocahontas?
The region known for plantations and cash crops like rice and tobacco
What is the Southern region?
Sparingly most nearly means how
What is carefully or conservatively?
The main reason Roanoke failed
What is lack of supplies and inability to survive?
The winter of 1609–1610 when many colonists died
What is the Starving Time?
The settler who helped establish tobacco as a successful crop
Who is John Rolfe?
The two environmental factors that influenced colonial development
What are geography and climate?
The Virginia House of Burgesses was an early example of ______________
What is self-government?