Setting Sail
What company sold shares of stock to finance the economic venture that was Jamestown?
The Virginia Company of London
This is what the settlers traded TO the native peoples.
Tools, pots, beads, and copper
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
This person granted the charters to the Virginia Company of London, which extended English rights to the settlers.
King James of England
True or false: If more supply ships hadn't arrived to help, Jamestown would have survived just fine.
False
The arrival of supply ships with more people, supplies, and food was a huge help to the people at Jamestown.
Pocahontas really had a pet raccoon named Miko.
Cap
England hoped to increase its _______ and _______ by colonizing America.
Power and wealth
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
The native peoples traded this TO the settlers.
Food
True or False: More settlers began to settle in Jamestown, including women.
True
What is one thing the settlers had to eat to survive, when they had no food?
Leather, snakes, etc.
Answers will vary.
Pocahontas married John Smith.
Cap; she married John Rolfe.
The first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, was located on a peninsula. However, today it is located on_____________.
An island
The native peoples helped the settlers survive by showing them how to plant______________
Corn and tobacco
The arrival of this group of people was important because they worked as the main source of labor on tobacco plantations.
Africans
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
The site the settlers chose to live on was___________ and lacked__________________.
What is marshy and safe drinking water?
Pocahontas traveled to London, England.
Fact
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
Name the 3 reasons why Jamestown was chosen as the place to settle.
The location could be easily defended from attack by sea (from Spanish).
Water along shore was deep enough for ships to dock
They believed they had a good supply of fresh drinking water.
This is how Captain John Smith created a positive relationship with the native peoples.
Trading
This colonist became a leader for others, and believed that Jamestown would succeed if everyone worked, including the gentlemen.
Captain John Smith
"He who shall not work, shall not eat!"
Pocahontas was 18 when she met John Smith.
Cap; she was only 12.
What year was Jamestown established?
1607
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
At first the Indians saw the settlers as visitors, but eventually saw them as ______________
Invaders who would take over their land
Who did Pocahontas marry?
John Rolfe
Pocahontas married John Rolfe.
Fact; She most likely married him to establish peace between the Indians and the settlers.