Jamestown Beginning
England’s first permanent colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
He married Pocahontas and introduced tobacco to Jamestown.
Who was John Rolfe?
Indentured servants worked for this instead of money.
What is freedom or passage to America?
Spanish and French colonies focused on spreading this religion.
What is Catholicism?
This French explorer founded Quebec and learned to speak Huron.
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
Jamestown was named after this English king.
Who was King James I?
This Native American woman helped improve peace between the English and the Powhatan.
Who was Pocahontas?
Slavery and indentured servitude were different because slavery lasted for this long.
What is for life/until death?
Large land grants in New Spain were called this.
What are encomiendas?
This river helped Champlain explore inland and expand France’s territory.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
105 men and boys founded Jamestown while working for this company.
What is the Virginia Company?
A crop grown for profit, not for eating, is called this.
What is a cash crop?
Tobacco caused tension between settlers and Powhatan because it required more of this.
What is land/territory?
A person who teaches their religion to others is called this.
What is a missionary?
This French city began as a group of forts to protect the Mississippi River.
What is New Orleans?
This leader’s rule, “He that will not work shall not eat,” helped save Jamestown.
Who was John Smith?
This group of Native Americans was led by Chief Powhatan.
Who were the Powhatan people?
Poor leadership, laziness, and disease caused many of Jamestown’s early problems. Which of these could have been prevented?
What is poor leadership and lack of work ethic?
After many Native Americans died, Spain brought enslaved workers from this continent.
What is Africa?
Louisiana was named after this French king.
Who was King Louis XIV?
The harsh winter of 1609–1610, when most colonists starved or died, was called this.
What is the Starving Time?
This group made laws for the Jamestown colony — the first representative government in the Americas.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Explain one way John Rolfe changed life in Jamestown.
What is that he introduced tobacco as a cash crop and brought wealth to the colony?
French colonies were different from English ones because they focused mainly on this.
What is fur trading and making alliances with Native Americans?
How did the alliance between the French and Native Americans help both groups — and how did it hurt them?
It helped the French and Native Americans trade and build alliances, but also spread diseases like smallpox and caused conflicts.