Geography
The area where the Englishmen started their colony.
The leader of the English colonists. He asked the Powhatan tribe to help learn how to grow corn and other crops.
Who is John Smith?
The winter of 1609 when there was little food and many colonists perished.
What is starving time?
Including Jamestown in Virginia, these "colonies" later became the first states of our country. (See page 106 in your book)
What are the 13 colonies?
This body of water made a good port and provided protection from attack.
What is Chesapeake Bay?
Leader of the Powhatan tribe.
Who is Powhatan?
This river provided good resources such as fishing.
What is the James River?
This is the place in modern day Jamestown where people dress, talk, and do things as they did long ago.
What is the living history museum?
Jamestown is located in this state.
What is Virginia?
He grew a new kind of tobacco.
Using your packet page 24, what year was "Starving Time"?
The year was 1609.
Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery. (book page 109)
What are the names of the replicas of boats the colonists sailed on?
A body of water that is partly surrounded by land.
What is a bay?
The daughter of a Native American leader and married to an Englishman.
Who is Pocahontas?
Using your packet page 26, how many years ago was "Starving time"?
417 years ago.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
A place that is ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
People who were owned by other people.
What is a slave?
A special event that brought peace to Jamestown.
The marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe.
Colonists were hoping to find this resource at Jamestown.