Jamestown 1
Where is an English person from?
Where is England?
Which continent did the English land on and make a settlement?
What is North America?
Which Legislative body came from the establishment of the House of Burgesses at Jamestown in 1619?
Virginia General Assembly
Africans
when did world war 2 start
1939
Give a reason the Europeans wouldn't have wanted to settle in Jamestown
No Fresh Drinking water
What two groups of people arrived in Jamestown and made it more diverse?
Women and Africans
What was the document that the King of England wrote giving the Va Company of London permission to settle in North America?
What is a Charter
Jamestown was a strip of land bordered on 3 sided by water. We call this type of land mass a what?
Peninsula
Who was the leader of either germany or the USSR (soviet union/ russia) in ww2?
hitler for germany, Joseph stalin for USSR
Jamestown was founded on a peninsula and bordered on three sides by the what?
James River
Name 2 hardships the settlers faced?
No survival skills, starvation, disease, marshy lands
Food
What was the main goal of the stockholders who financed Jamestown?
To make money
in which city did the final british defeat of the revolutionary war happen, marking U.S. victory?
Yorktown
What did the arrival of women in Jamestown do for the colony?
1) More families were established
2) A permanent settlement became possible
The English established a settlement in modern-day North Carolina called
Roanoke Island
Which two colonies is Virginia sandwiched between?
What are Maryland and North Carolina?
True or False: Jamestown was an island when settlers chose to found it
False
which country did germany first invade, marking the start of ww2?
Poland
If you were a Jamestown settler, what is a book you might want to bring with you that would help you survive?
a book about farming, and survival
Who granted the charter that allowed for an English settlement in North America?
The King of England, King James I
The settlement of Jamestown was paid for by the stockholders of the
Virginia Company of London
True or false? The Powhatan natives helped the Settlers build the Jamestown fort, and form their new government?
False
what world war 1 fortress is famous for the "attack of the dead men", where 100 Russians, half dead from German mustard gas, fought off a German battalion 7000 soldiers large
Osoweic fortress