Colonies
How many colonies were there in North America?
What is 13
What year was Jamestown established?
What is 1607
What are the three colonial regions?
What is New England, Middle Atlantic, and Southern
Who was the Native American tribe that was living in the area the English called Jamestown?
What is the Powhatan
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
What is Jamestown
In the winter of 1609-1610, the colonists ran out of food and many died. What was this time called?
What is The starving time
What colonial region did Jamestown belong to?
What is Southern
Who was the king that chartered the colony of Jamestown. (Hint** Jamestown and the James river were named after him.)
What is King James I
When John White returned to Roanoke Island from England, he found no colonist, but instead only found a word carved into a tree. What was that word?
What is Croatoan
What are the names of the three ships on which the English sailed to America to start the first permanent English colony?
What is the Discovery, Susan Constant, and Godspeed
What colonial regions industry was based mostly on agriculture; growing crops like rice, tobacco, and indigo, on large farms called plantations?
What is The Southern Region
Who was the English colonist largely responsible for the survival of the colonist when they first arrived at Jamestown?
What is John Smith
What is the nickname given to the Roanoke Island colony because of the mysterious disappearance of the settlers?
What is the lost colony
What are a few challenges the colonist at Jamestown faced? Name at least two
What is illness, different climates, brackish water, no food, no supplies, fires, tension with the Native Americans, freezing winter temperatures, lack of organization (sometimes,)
Which colonial region's industry was based on fishing, furs, timber, and shipbuilding?
What is The New England Region
What is Pocahontas, (also known as Matoaka and later known as Rebecca)
What crop did the colonist at Jamestown start growing that saved their colony?
What is tobacco
What investment company was given permission by King James I to establish the Jamestown colony?
What is the Virginia company of London
What colonial regions industry was based off agriculture, including cattle and wheat farming.
What is The Middle Atlantic region
Just when the Jamestown colonist thought all was lost, another man from England came to their rescue with three ships filled with supplies. Who was the man?
What is Lord De la Warr