Chapter 1
A person who buys and sells things.
What is a trader?
This is a group of people who meet to help run a government
What is a council?
This is a hole dug deep into the ground to get water.
What is a well?
This is an explosive material used to make guns shoot.
What is gunpowder?
This is a plant whose leaves are used for chewing or smoking.
What is tobacco?
This is a large area that may have certain characteristics related to its geography, form of government, or traditions that set it apart from other places
What is a region?
This is a a man with high position in society; not a laborer.
This is the rule that John Smith made to save Jamestown.
He who does not work shall not eat.
This is a person appointed by the king to oversee and make decisions in a region or colony
What is a governor?
This is a crop that is grown to be sold.
What is a cash crop?
Jamestown colonists first struggled because they had little food and many became sick. This terrible winter became known by this name.
What is the Starving Time?
This is a plant that is grown in large quantities for food or other use.
What is crop?
This is the floor of a ship that people walk on.
What is a deck?
What is "to get rich?"
This is something that is owed, usually money.
What is debt?
This is the ability of people to rule themselves and make their own laws
What is self-government?
The settlers traveled across this ocean from England to reach Jamestown.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This is a part of a body of water that is next to land and provides a safe place for ships to anchor.
What is harbor?
This is a fence made from wooden or metal stakes driven into the ground.
What is a palisade?
This is the state that Jamestown was founded in.
What is Virginia?
This was the daughter of Powhatan who wanted to make peace with the colonists.
Who is Pocahontas?
This means sickness.
What is disease?
Colonists often settled near these because they provided transportation, water, and fertile land.
What are rivers?
This is wood that is cut from trees and used for building; lumber.
What is timber?
This was the first permanent English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown?
This is the country where the colonists in Jamestown sailed from.
This Native American leader was the father of Pocahontas and leader of the Powhatan people.
Who is Powhatan?
This is a person who owes an employer a certain amount of work for a certain amount of time in exchange for some benefit.
This was the lost colony that was settled prior to Jamestown.
What is Roanoke?