Jamestown's Location
Jamestown was built beside this Virginia river.
What is the James River?
A long period with very little rain made food harder to find in Virginia.
What is a drought?
The Powhatan people and English settlers exchanged goods through this activity.
What is trade?
England hoped to gain wealth by finding these valuable metals in North America.
What are gold and silver?
Ships could travel close to shore at Jamestown because the water was this.
What is deep?
Many settlers lacked the practical abilities needed to grow food and provide for themselves.
What were survival skills?
The Powhatan people taught the settlers to grow this important crop.
What is corn?
England wanted colonies to provide these useful natural resources for trade and manufacturing.
What are raw materials?
The settlers chose a narrow piece of land surrounded by water because it seemed easier to protect.
What is a peninsula?
John Smith used this rule to encourage settlers to work.
What was “He that will not work shall not eat”?
The Powhatan people viewed the growing English presence as a threat to this.
What was their land?
The Virginia Company’s investors helped pay for the Jamestown expedition in this way.
What is by investing money?
This natural resource near Jamestown could be used for building and trade.
What is timber?
Growing crops helped the settlers survive mainly by giving them this.
What is a dependable food supply?
In his 1609 words, Chief Powhatan questioned why the English used force when they could ask for help peacefully.
Who was Wahunsenacawh, or Chief Powhatan?
This document gave the Virginia Company permission to establish a settlement and described its boundaries.
What is a charter?
Over time, water and weather wore away the land around Jamestown, changing the peninsula into this.
What is an island?
Settlers moved to other areas beyond Jamestown partly to leave its unhealthy surroundings and find this.
What were healthier places to live?
This Powhatan helped connect her people with the English settlers.
Who was Pocahontas?
England’s effort to establish colonies was partly driven by competition with these countries for wealth and power.
What are other European nations?