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The Powhatan People traded _____ to the Jamestown settlers in exchange for copper, beads, and metal.
food/furs
Write one work duty that Powhatan women completed.
Cooking, farming, gathering firewood, making clothing, assembling homes
Write one work duty that Powhatan men completed.
Fishing, hunting, making tools, making canoes, defending the village
Chief Powhatan’s daughter, ___, formed a friendship with Captain John Smith.
Pocahontas
The ___ Company started a settlement in Jamestown because they hoped to make a profit.
Virginia
True or False?
King James I of England gave the Virginia Company a charter, or permission, to establish colonies in Maryland.
False - he gave permission to settle in Virginia
When settlers arrived in 1607, the site for Jamestown was probably uninhabited because nearby water became ___ in the summer.
Salty or brackish
Jamestown was settled in the present-day state of ___.
Virginia
The Virginia Company wanted Jamestown to be surrounded by water on ___ sides to provide extra protection from possible Spanish attacks.
three
The ___ was the largest ship that sailed on the first voyage to Jamestown.
Susan Constant
___ signed a contract agreeing to work in Jamestown in exchange for ship passage.
Indentured servants
True or False?
Enslaved individuals were forced to come to Jamestown as laborer (workers).
True
The wealthy men who traveled on the first voyage to Jamestown were called ___.
gentlemen
___, one of Jamestown’s leaders, helped the settlement with his rule, “He that will not work, shall not eat.”
John Smith
Jamestown settlers built a wooden fence, or ___, around the settlement for protection.
palisade
The desperate time when Jamestown settlers had no good food to eat was called ____.
Starving Time
A terrible ___ in Virginia was one of the reasons for Starving Time.
drought
One cause of the Starving Time was that Powhatan warriors killed any settlers who stepped outside of Jamestown’s ___.
fort
Write one food or object that Jamestown settlers ate during the Starving Time.
Rats, snakes, mice, horses, dogs, cats, boiled leather, human flesh
The original Jamestown Fort, built in 1607, was formed in the shape of a ___.
triangle
Jamestown settler, ___, sparked the tobacco trade with the special tobacco seeds he obtained from the Caribbean Islands.
John Rolfe
True or False?
Growing tobacco was an easy way to earn money because the crop needed very little attention.
False - it was a lot of work and very time consuming
The marriage of ___ and John Rolfe led to a time of peace between the Powhatan People and Jamestown settlers.
Pocahontas
Settlers survived their first two years in Jamestown because of the food they received from the ___.
Powhatan
Settlers were required to attend church twice a day. Announcements & laws were read during church services because ___.
Most settlers couldn’t read