Beginnings
European explorer that accidentally found the New World in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus
Company that decided to settle an English Colony in Virginia and paid for it
What is the Virginia Company
The site had mosquitoes that carried diseases
WHat was one of the problems that faced early Jamestown?
A time when the Jamestown colonists were forced to eat things that people normally do not eat like snakes, rats, boiled leather and even dead humans
What was the Starving Time?
Country that first brought tobacco to Europe
What was Spain
Country Columbus sailed from
What is Spain
Place where Jamestown colonists left from
What is England
Early leader that improved life in Jamestown
Who was John Smith
Cause of the Starving Time
What is The colonists stopped trade with the local tribes and the Powhatan chief had told his people to kill any colonists leaving the Jamestown fort
Ordered the execution of any Spaniard who gave tobacco seeds to a non-Spaniard
What Spain did to protect its tobacco trade
1st European country to start colonies in the New World
What is Spain
Year when Jamestown settlers settled Jamestown
What is 1607
Over half
Number of Jamestown colonists who died the first year
Proof Jamestown was a poor site for a colony
What is it was swampy, had no fresh water, had disease carrying mosquitos and limited resources?
Someone who came to Virginia to work and in return was given a voyage to Jamestown, food, shelter and a freedom due in return
What is an indentured servant?
First English attempt to start a colony in the New World
What is Roanoke
Ocean that Jamestown colonists crossed
What is the tlantic
Work
What John Smith made the colonists do
Tobacco
What finally led to Jamestown making money and being successful?
Reason why early Virginia needed so many workers
What is tobacco required a lot of workers and this was the way that they tried to meet this need
Fate of the Roanoke colonists
What is vanished
Who was the Jamestown colonists most concerned about when they selected their site
Reason Smith left the colony and returned to England
What is he was injured in a gunpowder explosion?
Man who brought tobacco to Jamestown
Who is John Rolfe
When first African slaves arrived in Jamestown
What is 1619?